[cvsnt] Update with non-existing tag deletes sandbox files
Tony Hoyle
tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Tue Nov 18 00:59:47 GMT 2008
Arthur Barrett wrote:
> Jørgen,
>
>> This bug applies to CVSNT version 2.5.04 build 3236.
>> If a module is checked out or updated, with the -r option, (for
>> example: CVS up -r this-tag-does-not-exist mymodule) and the tag does
>> not exist (maybe because you missplelled it) CVS will report every
>> file in the module as "no longer in the repository" and DELETE the
>> file from the sandbox!
>> Previous releases of CVSNT - correctly - reports the non-existing tag
>> as, well - non-existing: "no such tag this-tag-does-not-exist".
>
> To me the behaviour with 2.5.04 looks correct and the 2.5.03 behaviour
> broken.
>
> What do other users think?
>
2.5.03 and before used to have to go away and search the entire
repository just to give that message... it led to a number of posts on
here as it could take many minutes to complete.
Even after that if the tag existed anywhere - even a completely
different module - you'd get exactly the same behaviour as 2.5.04. So
the time spent was essentially wasted.
Tony
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