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Garyl Erickson wrote: > Tony, > > What do you mean by "hasn't worked properly for years"? I've been using > it for years, thinking it was working, as it appeared to be working. Are > you telling me it's been lying to me? It did things like modify the sandbox (expecially if -d was in the .cvsrc.. it'd create empty directories) and using -j options was obviously a no hoper as to test a merge you have to modify the file. > This brings up a bigger issue. I'm extremely disappointed to hear cvsnt > is not backwardly compatible with cvs. At the very least, it needs to It is - -n didn't work properly in the original cvs that I first worked with - 1.10.8 - and that was many many years ago. At the time I didn't care that much as I was basically the only user of cvsnt.. it wasn't until much later it was taken out as it got more and more unmaintained over time. I did have a go at making it work a while back (leading to the '-n co fix' that then broke eclipse as it was expecting the bugged version.. you can't win... we had to add an option to emulate the bugs again!). Nobody really uses it - we got enough of -n co working so eclipse could do it's ls simulation, but in all the years I haven't heard of anyone actually using -n up in production, otherwise they'd have found exactly as you did.. it simply doesn't do anything useful, or at least reliably useful. There are plenty of ways of finding out the information without resorting to hacks like that. The easiest of course is just to look at your frontend - it will have the functionality built in. If you want to have a go at putting the functionality back in then be my guest.. it's a fairly big project but I expect it's doable (probably the only way to do it reliably is to write parallel commands that work on temporary copies of the sandbox). Tony