Re: Client hands with '-z' option

[William Brower]

Eric Siegerman wrote:

>>On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 10:19:01AM +1200, William Brower wrote:
>> I was attempting to measure the effect of compression
>> with "time cvs -z3 co project" but this command did
>> not return - it hung after extracting all the files.
>> [...]
>> Client$ cvs --version
>> Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11 (client/server)
>> [...]
>> Server$ cvs --version
>> Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.2 (client/server)
>
>It might be a version mismatch.  They're supposed to be
>interoperable, but IIR, there's a subtle difference in who
>expects whom to do what when, that can cause weird things like
>this to happen.  Try upgrading the client.

Yes, upgrading the client to 1.11.2 prevents the hang.
I still think this should be considered a bug, even
if it is "subtle" and "weird".