Re: cvs client: refetching unpatchable files

[Larry Jones]

James Croxford writes:
> 
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> The version of the CVS command we have is 1.11

That version is ancient -- the current stable release is 1.11.20!  I
strongly suggest upgrading both the client(s) and the server (although
the server is most important): <http://www.cvshome.org/>.  That may well
fix the problem.

> I need to understand why a patch would fail, or at least some of the
> possible reasons, and ideally would like to fix this so the patch works if
> at all possible.

The usual reason is that something has changed the file without changing
the timestamp.

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-Larry Jones

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