From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Connection to emacs CVS broken ? Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:17:12 +0000 Message-ID: <45F9C5E8.1010700@gnu.org> References: <86wt1kw5rp.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <4k8xdziuwz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87k5xi45h5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <17913.45372.941749.353301@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173997110 21418 80.91.229.12 (15 Mar 2007 22:18:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:18:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Glenn Morris , Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" To: Nick Roberts Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 15 23:18:20 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HRyGy-0004Ru-0y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:18:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HRyI0-0003ry-82 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:19:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HRyHw-0003rt-8I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:19:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HRyHu-0003rg-Ta for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:19:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HRyHu-0003rd-Ns for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:19:10 -0500 Original-Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HRyGn-0003cY-Nf; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:18:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail1.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7336950E4A; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:17:22 +0000 (GMT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) In-Reply-To: <17913.45372.941749.353301@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:67971 Archived-At: Nick Roberts wrote: > Does CVS get confused if your checked out file thinks it's a later version than > the most recent in the repository? How about trying it on a single, non-source > file first? > Yes, in my experience. The way around it is to check out a fresh copy, then copy the up to date files (without copying the CVS directories) into that tree, and check them in. But this will not preserve any checkin comments, so it would be better to restore what we can from arch and other sources first.