[cvsnt] Re: CVSNT and Diff problems - PLEASE HELP !

[Tony Hoyle]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 16:03:04 +0100, "Damien Harper"
<harperd at keops.net> wrote:

>Hi all,
>I'm quite used to use CVS on Linux and I get some troubles making CVSNT work
>properly !
>I installed it on a Windows 2000 Server with almost no troubles (just had a
>problem with spaces in PATH).
>Then:
>1. I created a repository and initialized it.
>2. I created a module TestCVS : everything went OK
>3. I added and commited a text file test.txt (cvs -q -x add test.txt then
>cvs -q -x commit -m "blabla" test.txt) : everything went OK
>4. I modified and commited it : everything went OK
>5. I ran rcsdiff -p --unified=3 -r1.1 -r1.2 "/repository/test.txt,v" : CVSNT
>told me that everything is different
>6. I modified and commited the file again : everything went OK
>7. I ran rcsdiff -p --unified=3 -r1.1 -r1.3 "/repository/test.txt,v" : CO
>told me that "edit script refers to line past end of file" then "co aborted"
>8. I ran rcsdiff -p --unified=3 -r1.2 -r1.3 "/repository/test.txt,v" : CVSNT
>told me that everything is different
>
>I made EXACTLY the same manipulation on my CVS server on my linux box and
>EVERYTHING was OK
>So what's the problem ??? Why are there such differences.
>
It's probably rcsdiff.  Does the version of rcsdiff you ran on the NT
box work handle CR/LF pairs properly?  Presumably rcsdiff tries to
modify the file in some way?  Are you sure it's making exactly the
same modifications (again, taking CR/LF modifications into account)?

Running legacy rcs tools against a cvs repository isn't supported,
btw.  You can seriously screw up a repository that way.

Tony