[cvsnt] TortoiseCVS History/Diff writes zero-byte files

Arthur Barrett arthur.barrett at march-hare.com
Mon Jul 10 02:00:03 BST 2006


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Thomas,

Cc'ing to newsgroup.

>  cvs -ttt update -r 1.63 BVZUG2.CBL 2> trace.log
> and trace.log is appended. 

All looks fine to me.  The results were returned and the file correctly
updated.

> But I could not see anything written to 
> the Temp directory. 

Tortoise uses the -p parameter to pipe the results to a different file,
eg:
  cvs -ttt update -r 1.63 -p BVZUG2.CBL > c:\mytemp\BVZUG2.CBL 2>
trace.log

This indicates the problem is outside of CVSNT - I suspect it's
antivirus, or a buffer size problem in TortoiseCVS.  

Occasionally this sort of thing is caused by the wrong permissions on
the temp directory (Windows sets special permissions on Temp and they
should never be altered) but that wouldn't explain why different size
files create different results.

Regards,


Arthur



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