RE: Help! "Disappearing" log messages

[Jim.Hyslop]

J Krugman wrote:
> I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.  The command
> 
>   % cvs -d $MY_REPO ci -m "testing ci" some_file
> 
> ...runs without any error messages, but immediately afterwards
> 
>   % cvs -d $MY_REPO lo some_file |grep "testing ci"
> 
> ...produces no output.  Likewise,
> 
>   % grep "testing ci" $MY_REPO/MyProject/path/to/some_file,v
> 
> ...also produces no output.
> 
> Shouldn't the string "testing ci" be somewhere in the output of
> the cvs log command for some_file, and also in some_file,v?
What does the output of just the log command show? i.e.

cvs -d $MY_REPO lo -rX.Y some_file

(where X.Y is the revision number indicated by the output of the ci
command).


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Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com)
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