Re: Problem merging a branch

[Derek R. Price]

Dennis Jones wrote:

> cvs server: Updating .
> RCS file: /vol/cvs/Projects/About/About.cpp,v
> retrieving revision 1.4
> retrieving revision 1.4.2.1
> Merging differences between 1.4 and 1.4.2.1 into About.cpp
> cvs server: About.cpp: No such file or directory

This shouldn't be happening.  It sounds like the server didn't create one of
the files it was supposed to before attempting the diff3/merge.  If you were
messing with the repository and have a corrupt archive, it's possible that one
of the files came out empty when it wasn't supposed to, so the server still
expected it.  Can you create a short Bourne shell script which, say, inits a
repository, copies About.cpp,v in, checks it out, then recreates your merge
& error case.  This script should use a CVSROOT with the :fork: access method
to fake client/server operation.

If you can supply this script I'll look into it further.

Derek

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Derek Price                      CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org )
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