Re: CVS Not Updating to latest revision...

[Peter Toft]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Fisher, Allen wrote:

> All--
> 
> Hope I'm posting this to the correct place. We've placed our
> documentation under CVS control, and I'm having a bit of trouble getting
> the latest revision. I've checked to make sure that no sticky tags are
> set, and I've tried checking out to a different sandbox on my machine. I
> always get revision 1.1, even though there have been numerous revisions
> since then. The commits are made on windows, and I'm updating on Mac.
> I've watched our docu editor commit files, and CVS commits the files
> correctly, and I can look on the server (I'm the admin) and see the
> correct revision of the files has been sent to the server. What am I
> doing incorrectly?


Read the mail from Larry. Another problem you might suffer from happens if 
you use the the CVS-keyword $Name: $ in your source files. 
I found yesterday that my error
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?17032
is much worse than I thought - since I found that a sticky tagged file 
which uses $Name: $ is NOT updated, when you run "cvs update -A".
That caused lots of pain until I found it - 4000 files. Two files not 
updated :(

So I look so much forward to the next official release!!!!

(see also http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?17168)

Best


Peter Toft, Ph.D. address@hidden http://petertoft.dk
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