This is probably an exact description of what happened. What I failed to understand was step 3, being a newcomer to CVS. I had wondered what all those extra files were - I never looked into them. They contain all the synchronization information. What I am used to is systems like StarTeam which, if they find a file in the local directory with the same name as that in the repository, figure it is the same file at possibly different stages of developement and try to synch them up, by evaluating the differences, as "Out of Date", "Current" or "Modified", etc. Star Team would never say that a local file was unrelated to a file in the repository with the same name. I'm not saying that's the right way; in fact the CVS approach seems to have some real power to it. But I wasn't used to it.
Anyway, thanks to everyone for educating me. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Loughran Sent: Mon 12/24/2001 4:54 PM To: Ant Developers List Cc: Subject: Re: CVS Problem [was RE: Ant contributor] the issue may be 1. you wrote the files and submitted them 3 someone else checked them in 3. when you do a CVS update it sees that you have files of the same name, so does not d/l the CVS versions; they are "eclipsed", in clearcase terminology 4. The error message "I know nothing about" is kind of correct, what it means is "this is not a CVS managed file" so move your versions out the way, do an update, drop your files in, start diffing. -steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 2:02 PM Subject: RE: CVS Problem [was RE: Ant contributor] Damn, you're right. In a fresh directory it works. What could I possibly be doing wrong? The only difference is that with the fresh checkout, there IS no difference. But when I submit a file to the differencer that I've changed, I get this "I know nothing about ..." message. It sounds like this error message may be spurious. Somehow the differencer is getting confused? Odd. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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