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.
> Frederic Gilles wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I think I have found a bug on CVSNT. >> Here is what I do : >> - I set the read/write status of a file to "writable" >> - I modify and save the file >> - I do a "cvs edit" on this file >> - And when I do a "cvs unedit", it doesn't ask me if I want to revert my >> changes. But the read/write status changes to "read-only" and the file >> becomes unedited. > > That's because you have not made any changes since the edit. It's doing > the right thing - reverting to the state before the edit as you asked it to. > > You can do unedit -w to leave the file read/write.. historically unedit > always sets the file read only no matter what its state before.. it's > debatable whether it should always do this, but as it stands that's the > way it works. > > Tony Tony The problem is that after unedit, CVSNT updates the file modification date. If you do a CVS STATUS, cvs correctly reports it as modified, but WINCVS don't. It shows the file as unchanged! I think it's the bug. Capaverde