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

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/42961; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
dholland%eecs.harvard.edu@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/42961: cvs near-silently throws away local mods
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:46:23 +0100

 On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 09:35:02PM +0000, Greg A. Woods wrote:
 >  Subject: bin/42961: cvs near-silently throws away local mods
 >  >=20
 >  > This is a pretty serious problem, as I and a lot of people keep random
 >  > uncommitted/local changes in source trees and rely on CVS not to
 >  > randomly lose them like this.
 >  
 >  In fact this is in effect the only way I use CVS with NetBSD.
 >  
 >  All my local changes are kept in local working directories where I
 >  frequently run "cvs -q update -dP" to get upstream changes.
 >  
 >  As far as I can remember though I've never seen the error you mention.
 
 I've never seen this either; although I frequenly update trees
 with local patches
 
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 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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