[cvsnt] cvswrappers -m 'COPY' gone in 2.0.11

Czarnowski, Aric aczarnowski at unimax.com
Thu Oct 9 16:33:43 BST 2003


Community technical support mailing list was retired 2010 and replaced with a professional technical support team. For assistance please contact: Pre-sales Technical support via email to sales@march-hare.com.


> It's never been supported - that error is legacy from 
> well before the cvsnt project started.  The date that
> this patch was added is in 1997.

But, but...

I'm sure this was working under the 1.11.1.3 build we were using.  No
"not supported" errors and there were conflicts that resulted in two
files like binary conflicts while keywords were still being updated in
the files.

Weird.

So the answer is "it can't do that now" and probably wasn't doing it
right before and we got lucky.

Since this is the case, could the default cvswrappers file that is
placed into new repository's CVSROOT directory get updated?  A new
2.0.11 cvswrappers file claims -m, -t, -f and -k are all supported which
is highly misleading.  I appears like only -k is actually supported in
CVSNT...

Thanks for the quick response Tony,
Aric


# This file affects handling of files based on their names.
#
# The -t/-f options allow one to treat directories of files
# as a single file, or to transform a file in other ways on
# its way in and out of CVS.
#
# The -m option specifies whether CVS attempts to merge files.
#
# The -k option specifies keyword expansion (e.g. -kb for binary).
#
# Format of wrapper file ($CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvswrappers or .cvswrappers)
#
#  wildcard	[option value][option value]...
#
#  where option is one of
#  -f		from cvs filter		value: path to filter
#  -t		to cvs filter		value: path to filter
#  -m		update methodology	value: MERGE or COPY
#  -k		expansion mode		value: b, o, kkv, &c
#


More information about the cvsnt mailing list
Download the latest CVSNT, TortosieCVS, WinCVS etc. for Windows 8 etc.
@CVSNT on Twitter   CVSNT on Facebook