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From: Derek R. Price
Subject: Re:
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:55:13 -0500

I couldn't reproduce this.  I even tried multiple roots.  Can you get it down 
to a sanity.sh test case?

Derek

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Josh Baudhuin wrote:

> Woops. I forgot to add:
>
> >Fix:
>
> I haven't had time to look into this. Here are a couple of things noteworthy 
> about the directory in question, either one which may have some impact...
>
> 1) The directory which didn't take the sticky -kk had an additional file and 
> a removed file as a result of the merge, e.g.:
>         A .cvsignore
>         M afile.cpp
>         R drawdb.cc
>            .
>            .
>            .
>         M zfile.cpp
>
> 2) The additional file was a  .cvsignore  file containing a handful of 
> specific files (no wildcards).
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Josh Baudhuin [mailto:joshb@cct104.Cadence.COM]
> >Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 11:23 AM
> >To: bug-cvs@gnu.org
> >Subject:
>
> >Submitter-Id:   net
> >Originator:     Josh Baudhuin
> >Organization:
> net
> >Confidential:  yes
> >Synopsis:      update -kk across multiple dirs drops -kk after a few dirs
> >Severity:      non-critical
> >Priority:      medium
> >Category:      cvs
> >Class:         sw-bug
> >Release:       cvs-1.11
> >Environment:
>
> System: SunOS cct104 5.7 Generic_106541-07 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80
> Architecture: sun4
>
> >Description:
>
>
>  * I have a directory hierarchy foo/src/{adir,bdir,cdir,...} under cvs
> control. (There are 65 subdirs underneath foo/src.)
>
>  * The archive files have a main trunk and a branch, with a
> "last-merge" label applied on revisions in the branch.
>
>  * The files are generally -kkv, with the occasional -kb (the
> latter kept sticky through use of the CVSROOT/wrappers controls).
>
> 1) I recently tried to do an incremental merge en masse:
>
>         % cd foo/src
>         % cvs update -jBRANCH-last-merge -jBRANCH -kk
>
> 2) While dealing with the merge-conflicts, I noticed that at about the
> 8th subdirectory, the -kk sticky option was no longer being applied!
>    Those files appear to have been updated -kk (i.e., no keyword
> expansion). When I examined the CVS/Entries files in subdirs
> {a,b,c,d,e,f,g}dir/, the .../-kk/ is there, but once I hit  hdir/  the
> update commandline option -kk was no longer being stuck. None of the
> subsequent subdirectories had the -kk either.
>    (As indicated in the Cederkvist manual, using -kk is useful to
> avoid spurious, keyword-related merge conflicts. If the option isn't
> entered into the Entries file--i.e., not sticky--spurious differences
> is exactly what you get, which makes the conflict resolution painful.)
>
> >How-To-Repeat:
>
>
> I haven't had time to look into this. Here are a couple of things
> noteworthy about the directory in question, either one which may have
> some impact...
>
> >Fix:
>
>
> By way of workaround, I wasn't able address the problem for the
> above-noted directory, but I split the update invokations thus:
>
>         % foreach dir (^*CVS)   # ^*CVS is a tcsh-ism for all-but-"CVS"
>         ? cvs update -jBRANCH-last-merge -jBRANCH -kk $dir
>         ? end
>
> The said directory still did not have sticky -kk, but the prior and
> subsequent ones did have the sticky option. I didn't attempt to edit
> the Entries file manually (to stick -kk in it) for the offending
> directory.
>
> Hope this all makes sense...
>
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