Re: import inconsistency

[Paul Edwards]

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu.cvs.bug/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> wrote in message 
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> >> Files in the Attic is a very common place situation: every time someone 
> >> adds
> >> a file to a branch before it's added to the trunk,
> > Very rare for a home user to do something like that.  You need
>
> What makes you think that CVS is only used by home users or that
> only home users would scream if they encountered a bug ?

What makes you think that it is a very common-place
situation?

All the messages I have seen in here appear to be coming from
people who use the head.  I haven't seen any indication that
people are adding files on a branch and then importing over
them either.

Not a great survey, but where did you get your information from?

> The fact is, active files in the Attic is a situation that happens
> all the time in many actively used repositories and so the corresponding
> code is being tested on a regular basis.

Source on the "many"?  And even if you have them, it doesn't
mean it is being used in the same situation as me.  Are they
in the Attic AND on a branch?

Apparently all this time I was the only one who ever did a
cvs diff between two tags too, and noticed the corresponding
bug on deleted files.  Presumably the many active repositories
don't use "cvs diff" much?  Or "cvs rdiff -s" either.  Or maybe
there aren't that many truly active repositories like mine?

BFN.  Paul.