Re: RCS Corrupting a file

[Aaron S. Hawley]

Jeff,

Which binaries of RCS are you oning?  I don't know anything about
compatability issues with Windows(TM) binaries, but the one's from Purdue
seem to have been targeted for Win95/NT.  Have you thought of trying the
Cygwin binaries?

My guess is that the bug would be in the diff utilities that comes with
the PC distribution of RCS, which may have been resolved by the Cygwin
folkls.

http://www.cygwin.com/

/a

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Jeff Crosby wrote:

> Hello.  I'm running RCS 5.7 on Windows 2000.  I checked in a revision of
> an existing source code file.  When I checked it back out at a later
> date, I couldn't compile.  I found that RCS had deleted a couple of
> lines from my source file.  I figured that I screwed up something, so I
> retyped the missing lines, and checked the file in as a new revision.
> When I checked it out, the exact same lines has been removed again.  I
> removed any tabs in the file and inspected the hex to verify everything
> looked normal before I check it in.  I've also looked into the
> corresponding ",v" file and saw that the current version is being stored
> with the lines already missing.  Therefore, it must be the check-in that
> is corrupting the file.  This has only happened randomly to a few of the
> 500+ files in the repository.  What am I doing wrong?  Thanks in
> advance!!
>
> Jeff Crosby
> address@hidden