cvs diff -u does not work after Savannah change

cvs diff -u does not work after Savannah change

[Lennart Borgman]

I have tried to follow the instructions at 
http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=4168. I followed the 
instructions "For anonymous working copies" but did not do those under 
"For project member working copy".

I am always doing an anonymous checkout following the current 
instructions on Emas home page (with plink which is/was necessary for 
w32) and that seems fine:

    set CVS_RSH=c:\dl\cvs\plink.exe
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co 
emacs

However when I now try to do

    cvs diff -u

I get

    Empty password used - try 'cvs login' with a real password

   CVS moved to cvs.savannah.[non]gnu.org
   Check http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=4168 for details.
   Anonymous access over SSH is replaced by the (more efficient) pserver.

and then it hangs. This worked before. Is this a w32 specific problem 
perhaps? Or did I do something wrong?

Re: cvs diff -u does not work after Savannah change

[Luc Teirlinck]

Lennart Borgman wrote:

   and then it hangs. This worked before. Is this a w32 specific problem 
   perhaps? Or did I do something wrong?

I do not believe that this is w32 specific.  You probably still have
the old entries (USER@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs) instead of
USER@cvs.sv.gnu.org:/sources/emacs in your CVS/Root files.  There
_must_ be some CVS command that allows you to update all CVS/Root
files automatically, but I can somehow not find it in the CVS manual.
Personally, I ran find-grep-dired for the old entry in my Emacs CVS
directory and then used Dired's Q command to perform a query replace,
but that was almost certainly terribly silly (although it worked).
I am not a CVS expert.

If you can not do a better job than me in searching the CVS manual,
you probably want to wait till somebody tells you how to really do it,
rather than follow my example.

Sincerely,

Luc.

Re: cvs diff -u does not work after Savannah change

[Andreas Schwab]

Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:

> There _must_ be some CVS command that allows you to update all CVS/Root
> files automatically, but I can somehow not find it in the CVS manual.

There is none.  Here is a script that does it for you:

#!/bin/sh
find -path "*/CVS/Root" |
while read root; do
  echo "$1" > $root
done

Andreas.

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Re: cvs diff -u does not work after Savannah change

[Richard M. Stallman]

    Personally, I ran find-grep-dired for the old entry in my Emacs CVS
    directory and then used Dired's Q command to perform a query replace,

That would be awfully painful if you had to approve
each change.  Did ! work to avoid that?

I was given this script by the Savannah hackers.

find -path '.*/CVS/Root' -print0 | xargs -0 perl -i -p -e 's/\@s/\@cvs.s/'

Re: cvs diff -u does not work after Savannah change

[Richard M. Stallman]

When there are problems with Savannah, please write to
savannah-hackers@gnu.org.  That reaches the people who work
on Savannah and can fix such a problem.

All anyone on this list can do is forward it there.
I have just done so.

Re: cvs diff -u does not work after Savannah change

[Juri Linkov]

>     Personally, I ran find-grep-dired for the old entry in my Emacs CVS
>     directory and then used Dired's Q command to perform a query replace,
>
> That would be awfully painful if you had to approve
> each change.  Did ! work to avoid that?

It's a pity the scope of ! is only one file, but not the whole set of files.

> I was given this script by the Savannah hackers.
>
> find -path '.*/CVS/Root' -print0 | xargs -0 perl -i -p -e 's/\@s/\@cvs.s/'

This script is from http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=4168.
All necessary information is on this page.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/