Re: ci causes archive to corrupt & collapse drastically in size

[Bob Proulx]

address@hidden wrote:
> I can put together a more formal post with detail.  This is
> mainly a test to see if my post shows up.

It did.

> I'm using cygwin's latest RCS. The file is about 1MB and the history
> archive is about 1MB, at a certain point a checkin results in the
> archive dropping in size to about 68K.  I have a before/after
> snapshot of the ,v file.

Since this is unlikely to be an upstream rcs problem it is most likely
an implementation problem in Cygwin.  You would probably get better
help by asking on the cygwin user mailing list instead.

  http://cygwin.com/lists.html

When reporting problems please always include the version of the tool
you are reporting against.  Also include enough detail sufficient to
recreate the problem.

For example in the above you say you have a ,v file that is already
1MB in size.  Therefore I must assume that this is an additional
commit and not an initial commit but you don't say.  Also since it is
MS-Windows it is important to note whether the files are text or
binary.

As an additional commit you will need to make sure that 'diff' is
available and up to date too and is also GNU diff.  'ci' calls 'diff'
to generate the delta.  I suspect that diff is failing for you.

Bob