[cvsnt] dry run error on update command

Thu May 18 17:56:07 BST 2006

You have probably run into a change in the way CVSNT handles path
specifiers, I believe.

I ran into it with export commands like this that stopped working:

cvs export -r HEAD -d somedir/subdir1/subdir2 module1/submod2/something

And had to do this instead:

mkdir somedir\subdir1
cd somedir\subdir1
cvs export -r HEAD -d subdir2 module1/submod2/something

In earlier versions of CVSNT it worked fine with the first command but
from some recent build of 2.5.03.xxxx it always gives an error similar
to the one you are getting unless I create the target dir parent
manually and move into it first.

By the way, you omitted a very important version info, the build
number....
There have been a large number of test releases of 2.5.03 so the build
numer is important to talk about issues on CVSNT operations.

Best regards,

Bo Berglund

-----Original Message-----
From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf
Of Zlatko Arifhodzic
Sent: den 18 maj 2006 18:31
To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook
Subject: [cvsnt] dry run error on update command

Hello,

We've switched from cvs to cvsnt recently and eveything seems ok
excepted that we cannot perform any preview before merging.

We used to do this by using the dry run -n option with command update.

However, we get a curious message telling that the file does not exist
on the server !

For info we're using cvsnt 2.5.03 on debian linux. The clients (linux
and win) use the command line tool via the pserver protocol.

Here is an illustration of the problem :

      testuser at squid:~/dev/workspaces/tests/branching/head$ cvsnt status
sandbox/testmerge/myfile.txt

===================================================================
      File: myfile.txt        Status: Up-to-date

         Working revision:    1.2
         Repository revision: 1.2
/code/sandbox/testmerge/myfile.txt,v
         Expansion option:    kv
         Commit Identifier:   4ef1446c868f0cff
         Sticky Tag:          (none)
         ...

      testuser at squid:~/dev/workspaces/tests/branching/branch$ cvsnt
status sandbox/testmerge/myfile.txt

===================================================================
      File: myfile.txt        Status: Up-to-date

         Working revision:    1.1.2.1
         Repository revision: 1.1.2.1
/code/sandbox/testmerge/myfile.txt,v
         Expansion option:    kv
         Commit Identifier:   4f29446c86fcf1f2
         Sticky Tag:          TEST_MERGE_BRANCH (branch: 1.1.2)
         ...

Now when we try a merge preview : 

      testuser at squid:~/dev/workspaces/tests/branching/head$ cvsnt -n
update -j TEST_MERGE_BRANCH sandbox/testmerge/myfile.txt
      RCS file: /code/sandbox/testmerge/myfile.txt,v
      retrieving revision 1.1
      retrieving revision 1.1.2.1
      Merging differences between 1.1 and 1.1.2.1 into myfile.txt
      cvsnt server: myfile.txt: No such file or directory

We got this strange  "No such file or directory" error !

Of course, want we want in finality is to perform a recursive merge
preview, 
but the operation fails on the first file with the very same error. 

If we enable the server logs we got the following result  : 
      ...
      16:59:14: S -> ACL lookup on directory /var/cvs/code/sandbox
      16:59:14: S -> verify_acl(read,HEAD,(null))
      16:59:14: S -> matched ACL user=, branch=_default_, merge=
      ...
      16:59:14: S -> matched ACL user=, branch=_default_, merge=
      16:59:14: S -> calculated ACL priority is 0
	...
      16:59:14: S -> RCS_checkout (/code/sandbox/testmerge/myfile.txt,v,
1.2, kV, myfile.txt)
      16:59:14: S -> copy(myfile.txt,.#myfile.txt.1.2)
      16:59:14: S ->
rcs_merge(/var/cvs/code/sandbox/testmerge/myfile.txt,v,/var/cvs/code/san
dbox/testmerge/myfile.txt,v,myfile.txt,kV,1.1,1.1.2.1)
       ....      
      16:59:14: S -> got rcs_mode = 0644 from rcs-permissions-tag
      16:59:14: S -> RCS_checkout (/code/sandbox/testmerge/myfile.txt,v,
1.1.2.1, kV, /tmp/cvsnmQIjc)
      ....
      16:59:14: S -> Calling diff3 with myfile.txt, /tmp/cvsOuyKcg,
/tmp/cvsnmQIjc
      16:59:14: S -> diff3 returned 2
      16:59:14: S -> unlink_file_dir(/tmp/cvs-serv20708)

>From what I understand, the server got both of the files, performed a
diff, so I realy don't understand why we get a " No such file or
directory" error.

Thanks for any information or pointers !

PS : I'm sorry if this subject was already answered, however I was
unable to find any info by searching the internet and the mail list
archives. 

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