Re: editors get lost with running an update

[gnu-cvs]

Using the diff command is no option, because it uses E responses instead of
sending the file content. This causes major troubles with non-ASCII-characters.

--
Best regards,
Thomas Singer
_____________
smartcvs.com


Jim.Hyslop schrieb:
> Thomas Singer wrote:
>
> > We've encountered a problem with GNU CVS 1.12.9. Please see 
> > the following log.
>
> [...]
>
> > CVSNT 2.0.58d behaves correctly, it keeps the editors information.
> >
> > What request SmartCVS should send, so GNU CVS 1.12.9 just 
> > sends the original 
> > content of the file without destroying the editors 
> > information? Thanks in 
> > advance.
>
> Well, I think the first thing to do is to fix the bug (sounds like a bug in
> CVS 1.12 to me).
>
> I don't have a copy of 1.12 handy to test this, but try adding the -p option
> to see if that helps.
>
> Since you're doing a file compare, you could just do it the way CVS expects
> you to - invoke the 'diff' command and send the current contents of the file
> ;=) Or, since you want to fetch the original version in its entirety, you
> could send an empty file. CVS will then respond with all the lines that you
> "deleted", i.e. the entire file (which you can then redirect to your
> external file comparer).