On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 09:43:38PM +0530, Sankaranarayanan K V wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following strange bug:
>
> setup:
>
> - the pserver access method is used
>
> - passwd is a sequence of entries of the form "cvsuser:passwd:realuser"
> In the setup there is only one user.
>
> - there are two branches B1 and B2
> (which were forked off trunk from some point)
>
> - there are two files file1 and file2
>
> - the files are modified in B2 after the fork point and committed.
>
> commands:
> cd <sandbox of B1>
> cvs -n update -j B1 -j B2 file1 file2
The bug does not arise of I do NOT give the -n option!
The bug is present even if I give no files as arguments.
>
> RCS file: /users/cvsadmin/repositories/project.rep/project/file1,v
> retrieving revision 1.1
> retrieving revision 1.1.4.1
> Merging differences between 1.1 and 1.1.4.1 into file1
> cvs server: file1: No such file or directory
>
> What the heck is happening?
>
> And if I reverse the order of files:
>
> $ cvs -n update -j B1 -j B2 file2 file1
> RCS file: /users/cvsadmin/repositories/project.rep/project/file2,v
> retrieving revision 1.1
> retrieving revision 1.1.4.1
> Merging differences between 1.1 and 1.1.4.1 into file2
> cvs server: file2: No such file or directory
>
> CVS never seems to know that there two file arguments provided.
> Further it gives this strange "No such file or directory" error.
>
> What could be the reasons?
>
> There is NO problem when the access is local and not pserver!
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards
> Sankar
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Sankaranarayanan K. V. / NM Ops NMSC / 3A-64 / x 4047 / EMail sankar
