Re: Help! Disappearing log messages

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J Krugman writes:
>
> This was the problem!  Thanks!!  (I can't believe commit fails
> silently like this.)

It doesn't fail, it works just fine.  Commit commits *changes*; if there
aren't any changes, then there's nothing to commit!

> During
> my *very* short acquaintance with CVS, I've already come across
> many oddities.  Its exit status is meaningless, apparently.

That's because a typical command performs a bunch of functions and it's
quite possible for some of them to succeed and some of them to fail.  It's
not at all clear how to encode that into a single exit status.

> The global -Q flag works for some commands, but not for others.

That's a valid criticism.  My impression is that -q and -Q have evolved as
various developers have decided that particular messages are more or less
useful.  I also get the impression that developers have added messages
without any consideration as to which option should suppress them, if any.

> CVS does not save any human-readable information about tags.

What information would you have it save?  People use tags for a very wide
variety of reasons; in most cases, the name of the tag is the only property
of interest.  CVS does provide facilities for recording additional data if
you want to do so.

> None of this is super-awful; just a lot of small-time weirdness.

It's only weird because it doesn't match your expectations; if you come to
CVS without a bunch of preconceived notions about how it ought to work, it
makes a lot more sense.  :-)

-Larry Jones



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