Re: vc-mode: initial comments lost if using CVS

[era eriksson]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:30:34 -0400 (EDT), "Aaron S. Hawley"
<Aaron.Hawley@uvm.edu> said:
> I can't confirm the behavior of the missing change comment, however I can
> confirm a missing description when the file is added outside of Emacs
> (and without a -m message).  I'm assuming that your scenario entails adding
> the file to CVS from the command-line rather than Emacs. 

Nope, this is specifically about adding a new file to CVS from within
Emacs.

Which version of Emacs were you trying this on?

http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/lisp/vc-cvs.el.diff?r1=1.24.4.3&r2=1.77
doesn't reveal (to me) anything to indicate that this particular
behavior would have been consciously changed, but some of the changes
are rather wide-reaching (in particular, the introduction of
vc-cvs-command to replace the generic vc-do-command), so perhaps it
changed just as a side effect of something else.

> $ mkdir ~/cvs
> $ export CVSROOT=$HOME/cvs
> $ cvs init
> $ cd /tmp
> $ mkdir vc-mode-test
> $ cd vc-mode-test
> $ cvs import -m"Created directory structure" vc-mode-test vc-mode test

For quick experimentation, you don't really need to import.

 vnix$ mkdir /tmp/cvsroot
 vnix$ cvs -d /tmp/cvsroot init
 vnix$ mkdir /tmp/cvsroot/vc-mode-test
 vnix$ cvs -d /tmp/cvsroot co vc-mode-test
 vnix$ emacs vc-mode-test/foo.txt

> In Emacs,
> 
> Set vc-initial-comment to non-nil with `M-: (setq vc-initial-comment t)'.
> Register the file (`cvs add') with `C-x v v' and enter a description.
> Check-in the initial revision (`cvs commit') with `C-x v v' and enter a
> change comment.

Yes, this is correct. Just to be candid, which version of CVS are you
using? I'm currently on 1.12.9 but this has been happening since I was
using Emacs 20 (or was it even 19.35?) and CVS 1.11.

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