RE: why does wincvs show all files as modified

[Chuck . Irvine]

Sascha,

I'm having a similar problem, but I am under the impression that it is 
related to an incompatibility between cygwin's cvs.exe and WinCVS, the 
problem being related to the timestamps the these two application 
formulate. However, early on the the diagnosis of my problem, David 
(sorry, don't know your last name) sent me a patched WinCVS cvs.exe. 
Maybe it is applicable to the problem you are reporting. (You aren't 
using cygwin cvs.exe, are you?).

David,

Do you have any patches for the timestamp problem that are applicable 
to WinCVS users that aren't using cygwin cvs.exe?

Anyone,

Would anyone care to comment on the joint use of cygwin cvs.exe and 
WinCVS - whether it is advisable, what to watch out for, how to 
configure the two systems to make sure they are compatible, etc. On the 
one hand, I am tempted to advise against their joint use. There is this 
problem with false locally modified flags and at least a couple of 
problems related to linefeeds. On the other hand, I'm wondering if a 
proper solution to the problem is to point one's cygwin PATH to the 
WinCVS version of cvs.exe. Can anyone see a problem with this approach.

Chuck

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sascha.drews [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 10:25 AM
> To: info-cvs
> Subject: why does wincvs show all files as modified
> 
> 
> hello everybody out there.
> 
> i have installed an cvs-server on nt (latest version of 
> cvsnt) and a client
> (also nt) using wincvs1.2. connecting is no problem, import 
> of a module
> (from the wincvs-client) also seems to cause no errors 
> (*****CVS exited
> normally with code 0*****). but when i checkout this module (no
> error-message from cvs, too) wincvs displays each file as 
> "mod. file" with
> an red icon. what am i doing wrong? there was similar problem 
> discussed in
> this mailinglist some days before, where the solution was to uninstall
> wincvs and delete all registry-entries belonging to wincvs. i 
> did this a
> couple of times (including reboot of the system), but no chance...
> 
> i hope, there's somebody to help me...
> 
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