Re: Need help with ad-do-it, it loops

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I have asked Romain for a diff (see below), but I am unsure if
>> that could be non-zero.
>
> ?!
>
> As I told you in private mail already, I do a clean checkout every
> time, there is absolutely no chance that the tree can have local
> changes right after checkout.

Ah, thanks. Sorry, I did not understand that you make a clean checkout
every time.


> But since you don't seem to believe it, here's the output of `cvs
> diff' in my last snapshot directory:
>
> $ pwd
> /home/romain/Work/Debian/emacs-snapshot/tarballs/emacs-snapshot-20090509
> $ cvs diff
> $
>
> Happy now?

Yes.


> Also, note that it doesn't actually tell you anything since the
> Debian packaging applies a few patches, see:
>
>  http://git.orebokech.com/?p=debian/emacs-snapshot.git;a=tree;f=patches

Thanks.

I would be glad if anyone could point to something there that could
possibly break Emacs' advice machinery. (I am not sure anything there
does, but as one can see in bug report
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nxhtml/+bug/369800 for nXhtml something
related to the snap-shots breaks it.)


>> Can someone please help us with this? Does "cvs update" ensure
>> that the diff is zero (as Romain assumes below)?
>
> You don't understand.  I do a cvs up to make sure that if someone
> was doing a checkin in the time I was doing the checkout, my local
> checkout contains everything.  That's needed because 1) people
> commit each file separately in Emacs and 2) I'm not sure if CVS
> checkouts are atomic by nature (although nowadays, they could be).

I see. Thanks.