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The other day, something frightening happened. I was working remotely (sick - working from my home) coordinating program changes with programmers at another remote site (client's home). I made 4 small changes to 3 different files, and committed those three files. The other site updated, compiled, and didn't see all my changes. I looked, and the 3rd file, though committed, had my change missing. I ran the CVS History command, and saw my commit. I did a diff between that version and the previous version and the only differences were in the CVS keywords ($Date$ and $Author$) with only one of my two changes (to this file). A routine that I had just written was simply gone. I did a find for that routine (to make sure I didn't add it to the wrong file), but couldn't find it in ANY file. A few of the other users had complained of something like this happening - making a change, committing the change, and the change disappearing. No one (including me) has been able to reproduce it consistently, and the users who complain about it are a bit slack with files in general - so I had been easier able to believe that they simply HADN'T made that change, or accidentally deleted the file without committing it. I hadn't believed it till it happened to me. Versions: TortoiseCVS: 1.2.2 On Win2000 CVSNT: 1.11.1.3 Build 57g On WinNT 4.0 SP5 Note that I've been getting complaints about this for months now, across older versions of CVS. Any help or insight would be welcome. __________ "...she danced danced down the street like a dingledogie, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'" -Jack Kerouac "On the Road"