[cvsnt] What's going on here? is cvs diff broken?

Victor A. Wagner Jr. vawjr at rudbek.com
Mon Sep 20 17:37:40 BST 2004


Community technical support mailing list was retired 2010 and replaced with a professional technical support team. For assistance please contact: Pre-sales Technical support via email to sales@march-hare.com.


I'm baffled by the following...specifically by why "cvs diff pwd.c" 
produces NO output.
this is a paste of several cvs commands.  Any suggestions as to how cvsnt 
can exhibit this behavior would be appreciated.

C:\Projects\boost\tools\build\jam_src>cvs ver
Client: Concurrent Versions System (CVSNT) 2.0.51d (client/server)
Server: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.16 (client/server)

C:\Projects\boost\tools\build\jam_src>cvs status pwd.c
===================================================================
File: pwd.c             Status: Needs Patch

    Working revision:    1.9
    Repository revision: 
1.10    /cvsroot/boost/boost/tools/build/jam_src/pwd.c,v
    Sticky Tag:          (none)
    Sticky Date:         (none)
    Sticky Options:      (none)


C:\Projects\boost\tools\build\jam_src>cvs diff pwd.c

C:\Projects\boost\tools\build\jam_src>cvs diff -r1.10 pwd.c
Index: pwd.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/boost/boost/tools/build/jam_src/pwd.c,v
retrieving revision 1.10
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -r1.10 -r1.9
18d17
< #include <unistd.h>

C:\Projects\boost\tools\build\jam_src>cvs -n update pwd.c
U pwd.c

C:\Projects\boost\tools\build\jam_src>type cvs\root
:ssh:vawjr at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/boost

C:\Projects\boost\tools\build\jam_src>

Victor A. Wagner Jr.      http://rudbek.com
The five most dangerous words in the English language:
               "There oughta be a law" 




More information about the cvsnt mailing list
Download the latest CVSNT, TortosieCVS, WinCVS etc. for Windows 8 etc.
@CVSNT on Twitter   CVSNT on Facebook