Re: [Savannah-hackers] cvs update problem for emacs

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 09:43:28AM +0900, Kenichi Handa wrote:
> In article <address@hidden>, Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > ->  Sending file `loaddefs.el' to server
> 
> > means you apparently made changes to this file, and it is sent to the
> > CVS server so as to make a diff.
> 
> > However, this file is nearly one megabyte. Maybe it is not stalling,
> > but just taking a long while to transfert the file?
> 
> > Do you have a '-z' option in your .cvsrc? If not, could you try again using:
> > % cvs -z9 update
> > ?
> 
> Thank you.  That worked!  But, loaddefs.el of HEAD is almost
> the same size.   But, as it is strange that it's slow only in emacs-unicode-2
> branch, I investigated a little more and found that lisp/.cvsignore
> contains loaddefs.el both in HEAD and emacs-unicode-2.
> Shouldn't cvs ignore loaddefs.el then?
> 
> And,  "cvs -z9 status loaddefs.el" in HEAD returns this:
> 
> ===================================================================
> File: loaddefs.el             Status: Unknown
> 
>    Working revision:  No entry for loaddefs.el
>    Repository revision:       2.96    
> /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/Attic/loaddefs.el,v
> 
> But, the same command in emacs-unicode-2 returns this:
> ===================================================================
> File: loaddefs.el             Status: Locally Modified
> 
>    Working revision:  2.95.2.2
>    Repository revision:       2.95.2.2        
> /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/Attic/loaddefs.el,v
>    Sticky Tag:                emacs-unicode-2 (branch: 2.95.2)
>    Sticky Date:               (none)
>    Sticky Options:    -ko
> 
> It seems that this file is deleted only in HEAD.  So, my
> guess is that a file in a repository is not ignored even if
> it is in .cvsignore.   Right?

You're right :)

-- 
Sylvain