Re: strange cvs diff problem with pcl-cvs and viewcvs

[Fabian Braennstroem]

Hello,

it is me again. Is this question to stupid or does nobody have an idea?



Fabian Braennstroem <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> This is probably my last chance to get an answer; I already wrote my problem 
> in
> the Emacs, ViewCVS and German Debian-Group, with no solution :-(
> I have a strange problem to show the diffs from my cvs repository. Actually 
> the
> problem occurs with ViewCVS and PCL-cvs when I want to show the differences
> between revisions. e.g. showing the diffs on the console with
> 'cvs diff -r 1.9 -r 1.10 main.f' everything is correct:
>
> Index: main.f
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/fab/cvsroot/Simulation/16/
> code/main.f,v
> retrieving revision 1.9
> retrieving revision 1.10
> diff -r1.9 -r1.10
> 299d298
> <
> 300a300
>  
> 305,335c305,335
> < c print x & y
> <       ni=82
> <       if (nvisit.eq.0) then
> < ...
> < ...
> ---
> c$$$c print x & y
> c$$$      ni=82
> c$$$      if (nvisit.eq.0) then
> ...
> ...
>  
>
> The revision 1.10 is currently the last revision for 'main.f'. My problem is,
> that ViewCVS and PCL-cvs don't show any differences between revision 1.10 and
> 1.9; they say that there are no differences!? This problem does not occur just
> for 1.9 and 1.10, it occurs for every file and every revision!? Everything 
> else
> like showing the logs, checkout, checkin,... works fine.
>
> Could it be that there is any basic setup wrong? In the beginning I just had
> cvs installed (right now version 1.11.15), now I added rcs to see the files in
> viewcvs.

Best Greetings!
-- 
Fabian Braennstroem
Duesseldorf/Berlin