Re: [Savannah-help-public] rcirc.el prevents cvs update for Emacs

[Davis Herring]

> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:48:51PM -0700, Davis Herring wrote:
>> I can't say I have any idea why (the file in question contains no
>> non-ASCII characters, for instance), but the file lisp/net/rcirc.el in
>> Emacs CVS HEAD seems to hang my cvs update attempts.  At some point
>> there
>> may have been an update to it that hung -- I'm not sure.  But I removed
>> the file locally and then, after noting that the file was lost, cvs
>> hung.
>> Then I retrieved a copy from the HTTP CVS browser and replaced it, but
>> then (with cvs -t) I see that it hangs trying to send the file to the
>> server to check against the repository copy (since the modtime is wrong,
>> I
>> suppose).
>>
>> A fresh checkout seemed to fail on or just after
>> lisp/erc/erc-autoaway.el.
>>  Is this some known issue with the file or with buggy cvs versions?
>
> Hi,
>
> Can you precise:
> - your CVS version
> - your access method (pserver or ssh)
> - a copy/pastable command line that you use for the checkout that
>   hangs
> - the content of your ~/.cvsrc, just in case
>
> As far as I'm concerned I can checkout emacs correctly with:
> cvs -d:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/emacs co emacs
> with CVS 1.12.13.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Sylvain
>


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