[bug #17919] Auto-correct of contents of CVS/Entries does not always work

[Peter Keller]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?17919>

                 Summary: Auto-correct of contents of CVS/Entries does not
always work
                 Project: Concurrent Versions System
            Submitted by: peterkeller
            Submitted on: Thursday 05/10/06 at 17:57
                Category: Bug Report
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 
           Fixed Release: None
   Fixed Feature Release: None

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Details:

If the day-of-month field of a date in CVS/Entries has a leading 0, cvs will
remove it, but this does not always work. I have tested this with version
1.12.13.1 (built on RedHat WS 4.0 with no options to ./configure). To
reproduce do the following. Note that it is necessary for the working file to
contain the $Name$ keyword to illustrate this problem. I have only tried this
for a date where the day-of-month is a single digit. I do not know if this is
a problem for any date, but I could investigate later this month.

Whatever the specified/intended behaviour is, the difference in behaviour
between a branch and the trunk is clearly a bug.

## Create and populate a repository
setenv CVSROOT <some empty directory>
cvs --sign=off init
mkdir test
cd test
cat >blah.txt <<'EOF'
$Name$
'EOF'
cvs --sign=off import -m test test start test
cd ..

## Illustrate correct behaviour
cvs co -d test.trunk test
cd test.trunk
cvs status          <----- Should show file is 'Up-to-date'

## Edit first line of CVS/Entries: replace space in front of date
## with zero, e.g. from
## /blah.txt/1.1.1.1/Thu Oct  5 17:30:42 2006//Tmybranch
## to 
## /blah.txt/1.1.1.1/Thu Oct 05 17:30:42 2006//Tmybranch

cvs status          <----- Should show file is 'Up-to-date'
cat CVS/Entries     <----- Edit above should have been reversed

# Now create a branch and illustrate bug
cvs tag -b mybranch
cd ..
cvs co -r mybranch -d test.branch test
cd test.branch
cvs status          <----- Should show file is 'Up-to-date'

## Edit first line of CVS/Entries as before

cvs status          <------ Will show file as Locally Modified
cat CVS/Entries     <------ Edit not reversed








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