From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Aaron S. Hawley" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: vc-mode: initial comments lost if using CVS Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:07:53 -0400 (EDT) Organization: University of Vermont Message-ID: References: <1124968223.23992.241452312@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1125036581.20820.241522797@webmail.messagingengine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1125062322 25921 80.91.229.2 (26 Aug 2005 13:18:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:18:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 26 15:18:39 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E8e5O-0006fe-8o for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:17:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E8e9J-0007VW-Uv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:21:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E8e2h-0002gY-3t for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:14:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E8e2Q-0002dj-M7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:14:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E8e2Q-0002ZX-I3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:14:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.198.101.202] (helo=pony.uvm.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1E8dxX-0001zI-6d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:09:27 -0400 Original-Received: from elk.uvm.edu (elk.uvm.edu [132.198.101.63]) by pony.uvm.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7QD7rDW023247 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:07:53 -0400 X-X-Sender: ashawley@elk.uvm.edu Original-To: era eriksson In-Reply-To: <1125036581.20820.241522797@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:12847 Archived-At: I'm running a GNU/Linux system via Debian. I can get the test case to work in both Emacs 21 and Emacs from CVS: * GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2005-03-17 on trouble, modified by Debian * GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2005-08-08 on malambruno, modified by Debian $ cvs --version Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.12.9 (client/server) Copyright (c) 1989-2004 Brian Berliner, david d `zoo' zuhn, Jeff Polk, and other authors CVS may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License, a copy of which can be found with the CVS distribution kit. Specify the --help option for further information about CVS I don't try to appear as a maintainer of vc-mode, so others are more capable of speaking to your question about changes to vc-cvs.el. Thanks for the information on a minimal CVS repository. /a On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, era eriksson wrote: > Nope, this is specifically about adding a new file to CVS from within > Emacs. > > Which version of Emacs were you trying this on? > > ... > > > In Emacs, > > > > Set vc-initial-comment to non-nil with `M-: (setq vc-initial-comment t)'. > > Register the file (`cvs add') with `C-x v v' and enter a description. > > Check-in the initial revision (`cvs commit') with `C-x v v' and enter a > > change comment. > > Yes, this is correct. Just to be candid, which version of CVS are you > using? I'm currently on 1.12.9 but this has been happening since I was > using Emacs 20 (or was it even 19.35?) and CVS 1.11. > > /* era */