Re: bin/42961: cvs near-silently throws away local mods

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

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From: "David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/42961: cvs near-silently throws away local mods
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 13:40:30 -0500

 I hit this issue the other day. In my case, what I lost wasn't very
 important or aggravating to lose, but I realized I have various changes
 across two trees that I haven't committed (or abandoned), so I guess I
 learned something there.
 
 Anyway, I mention this mostly because:
 
 On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 at 06:18:36 +0000, David Holland wrote:
 >I think it may be connected in some fashion to files with local
 >changes that still contain merge conflicts from a previous update.
 
 I'm positive that was the case for me.
 
 (I guess this topic may be moot soon, anyway.)
 
 Dave