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.
Tony Hoyle <tony.hoyle at march-hare.com> wrote in news:dqr0qk$q33$1 at paris.nodomain.org: > Alain Gauthier wrote: >> Dear all >> >> I work with CVSNT as client on Windows XP and a CVS server on Linux. >> >> On the client side, I type the command 'cvs -n update foo' on the DOS >> command line interface : >> In case of conflict or a need to merge with 'foo' I get not only the >> update command output but also 'foo' is modfied >> as if I performed the command without option '-n'. >> So foo is modified indicating the conflict blocks and the .#foo is >> created. > > -n is only supported for 'co -n' on an empty directory (as used to > simulate ls on servers that don't support it and by things like > eclipse) - the latest documentation has been updated to reflect this. > > Supporting it for all commands is just too complex - it never really > worked... even on the old cvs it sometimes modified the sandbox, and > its implementation is just a mess (lots of conditions littered all > over the code). There are plenty of other ways to find out > information about the repository that are nondestructive. > > Tony > You should disable -n by default. CVSNT should die if -n is used in a place where it doesn't work. A flag/registry setting/environment variable would exist to make it silently ignore -n as it does now. I got burned by this thing. Please fix :) -devin