Author: bodewig
Date: Thu Oct 16 05:22:05 2008
New Revision: 705224
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=705224&view=rev
Log:
cvs tasks don't work with arbitrary executables named cvs.exe. PR 39551.
Modified:
ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/changelog.html
ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/cvs.html
ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/cvstagdiff.html
Modified: ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/changelog.html
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/changelog.html?rev=705224&r1=705223&r2=705224&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/changelog.html (original)
+++ ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/changelog.html Thu Oct 16 05:22:05 2008
@@ -28,9 +28,14 @@
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>Generates an XML-formatted report file of the change logs recorded in a
<a href="http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/"; target="_top">CVS</a> repository. </p>
-<p><b>Important:</b> This task needs "cvs" on the path. If it isn't, you will
get
-an error (such as error 2 on windows). If <code><cvs></code> doesn't
work, try to execute cvs.exe
+<p><b>Important:</b> This task needs "<code>cvs</code>" on the path.
If it isn't, you will get
+an error (such as error <code>2</code> on windows). If
<code><cvs></code> doesn't work, try to execute <code>cvs.exe</code>
from the command line in the target directory in which you are working.
+Also note that this task assumes that the cvs exceutable is compatible
+with the Unix version from cvshome.org, this is not completely true
+for certain other cvs clients - like CVSNT for example - and some
+operation may fail when using such an incompatible client.
+</p>
<h3>Parameters</h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
Modified: ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/cvs.html
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/cvs.html?rev=705224&r1=705223&r2=705224&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/cvs.html (original)
+++ ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/cvs.html Thu Oct 16 05:22:05 2008
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@
<p><b>Important:</b> This task needs "<code>cvs</code>" on the path.
If it isn't, you will get
an error (such as error <code>2</code> on windows). If
<code><cvs></code> doesn't work, try to execute <code>cvs.exe</code>
from the command line in the target directory in which you are working.
+Also note that this task assumes that the cvs exceutable is compatible
+with the Unix version from cvshome.org, this is not completely true
+for certain other cvs clients - like CVSNT for example - and some
+operation may fail when using such an incompatible client.
+</p>
<p><b>CVSNT Note</b>: CVSNT prefers users to store the passwords
inside the registry. If the <a href="cvspass.html">cvspass task</a>
Modified: ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/cvstagdiff.html
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/cvstagdiff.html?rev=705224&r1=705223&r2=705224&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/cvstagdiff.html (original)
+++ ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/cvstagdiff.html Thu Oct 16 05:22:05
2008
@@ -25,9 +25,14 @@
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>Generates an XML-formatted report file of the changes between two tags or
dates recorded in a
<a href="http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/"; target="_top">CVS</a> repository. </p>
-<p><b>Important:</b> This task needs "cvs" on the path. If it isn't, you will
get
-an error (such as error 2 on windows). If <code><cvs></code> doesn't
work, try to execute <code>cvs.exe</code>
+<p><b>Important:</b> This task needs "<code>cvs</code>" on the path.
If it isn't, you will get
+an error (such as error <code>2</code> on windows). If
<code><cvs></code> doesn't work, try to execute <code>cvs.exe</code>
from the command line in the target directory in which you are working.
+Also note that this task assumes that the cvs exceutable is compatible
+with the Unix version from cvshome.org, this is not completely true
+for certain other cvs clients - like CVSNT for example - and some
+operation may fail when using such an incompatible client.
+</p>
<h3>Parameters</h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
