pcl-cvs not updating file status after an "add"

pcl-cvs not updating file status after an "add"

[Maciej Kalisiak]

Something seems to have changed in PCL-CVS that comes bundled with GNU Emacs.
With Emacs 21, when I run "cvs-update", and add an "Unknown" file to the repo
with "a", it's displayed status does *not* change (to "Added"); in fact, it
seems pcl-cvs' still thinks the file is unknown, because subsequently trying to
commit the file gives "`commit' is not applicable to any of the selected
files."  I have to redo "cvs-update" for pcl-cvs to pick up this change.  This
used to work fine before.  This behaviour persists even when I run as "emacs
-q", so it can't be my configuration.  I'm using the latest .deb emacs package
from Debian.

NOTE: doing an "add" on an Unknown directory works fine, and does update the
file listing.

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(more info) Re: pcl-cvs not updating file status after an "add"

[Maciej Kalisiak]

Just some more info that might be of use in reproducing this: I'm using CVS
version 1.11.2 (as I suspect pcl-cvs parses cvs output and may be sensitive to
its syntax).  Also, I've just noticed that the same problem occurs when I try
"removing" files from the repository (i.e., status of file not updated).

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Re: pcl-cvs not updating file status after an "add"

[Stefan Monnier]

> Something seems to have changed in PCL-CVS that comes bundled with GNU
> Emacs.  With Emacs 21, when I run "cvs-update", and add an "Unknown" file
> to the repo with "a", it's displayed status does *not* change (to
> "Added"); in fact, it seems pcl-cvs' still thinks the file is unknown,

Have you changed anything else ?  Like your .cvsrc file maybe ?
Can you show us the "*cvs*" and the " *cvs-tmp*" buffers right
after the `a' command ?


        Stefan

Re: pcl-cvs not updating file status after an "add"

[Maciej Kalisiak]

> Have you changed anything else?

Nothing that I recall, but it might have been broken for some times... I can't
recall when it started malfunctioning... could be a few months.

> Like your .cvsrc file maybe ?

I did change it, to add "cvs -q".  At first glance this looks significant, but
then I looked at PCL-CVS' calls to cvs, and they all use "-f", so ~/.cvsrc
should not be read.  Nonethelewss, I removed this line, but this had no effect.

> Can you show us the "*cvs*" and the " *cvs-tmp*" buffers right
> after the `a' command ?

*cvs* buffer: only the bottom changes.  For example, here's the bottom after an
addition:

--------------------- End ---------------------
-- last cmd: cvs -f add -m xman config .xresources/xman --

(that should be "xman config", but I have found that PCL-CVS always drops the
quotes around the description string)

There doesn't appear to be a *cvs-tmp* buffer.

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Re: pcl-cvs not updating file status after an "add"

[Bill Wohler]

mac@die.spammer.die.dgp.toronto.edu (Maciej Kalisiak) writes:

> There doesn't appear to be a *cvs-tmp* buffer.

  That's " *cvs-tmp*". Note the leading space. Buffers whose names
  have leading spaces are not shown in buffer lists.

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Re: pcl-cvs not updating file status after an "add"

[Maciej Kalisiak]

* Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>:
> > There doesn't appear to be a *cvs-tmp* buffer.
>  
>    That's " *cvs-tmp*". Note the leading space. Buffers whose names
>    have leading spaces are not shown in buffer lists.

Ahhhhh... OK, the temp buffer then contains the one line:

cvs server: use 'cvs commit' to add this file permanently

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Re: pcl-cvs not updating file status after an "add"

[Ryan Shaw]

I have noticed that I have this problem when using Emacs CVS.
Switching back to 21.2.1 fixes it.

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Re: pcl-cvs not updating file status after an "add"

[Stefan Monnier]

> I have noticed that I have this problem when using Emacs CVS.
> Switching back to 21.2.1 fixes it.

Please post a detailed recipe to reproduce the problem.
And post the content of both the "*cvs*" and " *cvs-tmp*" buffers
right after the command terminated.


        Stefan

Re: pcl-cvs not updating file status after an "add"

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I have noticed that I have this problem when using Emacs CVS.
>> Switching back to 21.2.1 fixes it.
> Please post a detailed recipe to reproduce the problem.
> And post the content of both the "*cvs*" and " *cvs-tmp*" buffers
> right after the command terminated.

Oh and BTW: post it with M-x report-emacs-bug so that it will have
some relevant info and it will go to the proper place (hint: gnu.emacs.help
is not the place where unreleased versions of Emacs are discussed).


        Stefan