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Paul Sander wrote:
This is why I hate the -n option of the
checkout/commit/tag/update commands and advocate its removal
from CVS.
What in the world are you talking about??? -n prevents changes
from being made anywhere! On the server or in the workspace!
Why in the world would you care if the user can run a command
which does nothing except tell the user what it would do if they
actually ran it without - -n?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!
Kindly double-check the manual and the code. There's this:
cvs -n commit ...
and there's this:
cvs commit -n ...
There's a difference. The former means "don't change disk". The
latter means "don't fire *info triggers". I believe that the
latter should be removed, but that's just me.
The latter *were* removed, over a year and a half ago, prior to the
CVS 1.11.7 and 1.12.1 releases. References to the command option `-n'
were removed from both the source and the manuals, for exactly the
reasons you suggest they should have been. I did the work myself.
There should be some emails discussing it in the archives, if you are
interested.