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Subject: Re: cvs 1.11.21-1 still experimental
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On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Charles Wilson wrote:

> Eric Blake wrote:
> > > The experimental version of cvs (1.11.21-1) has been in the
> > > experimental state since November.  Isn't it ready for 'current'
> > > status yet?
> >
> > I would like to see this resolved first, if the maintainer is
> > listening: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg01385.html
>
> Oh.  That.  Totally forgot about that.  Sorry.

Heh, Eric seemed more concerned with the keeping conflicts issues.

> I've had no blinding flashes of insight, either.  I *do* know that it's
> not blindly adding a "." to the end of the tempdir in order to defeat
> some name-hiding thing in cygwin.  Here's the actually command list
> being sent back-n-forth (by inserting printfs in the command loop):
>
> *** up here server_temp_dir=/tmp/cvs-serv2116 ***
> *** and /tmp/cvs-serv2116 DOES get created    ***
>
> Root /usr/local/src/CVSRoot
> Valid-responses ok error Valid-requests Checked-in New-entry Checksum
> Copy-file Updated Created Update-existing Merged Patched Rcs-diff Mode
> Mod-time Removed Remove-entry Set-static-directory Clear-static-directory
> Set-sticky Clear-sticky Template Notified Module-expansion Wrapper-rcsOption M
> Mbinary E F MT
> valid-requests
> UseUnchanged
> Global_option -t
> Argument cygipc
> Directory .
> expand-modules
> Argument -N
> Argument -P
> Argument --
> Argument cygipc
> Directory .
> co
> *** down here we try to mkdir_p /tmp/cvs-serv2116/. ***
>
> I believe it is because the "Directory" value is being appended to
> server_temp_dir, which would be fine if Directory were anything but '.'
> Basically we just need to check if Directory = '.' and skip the
> dir-creation step.  But I don't know where that's happening.
>
> I don't have a similar level of debug output from a (working) 1.11.17
> build -- that's as far as I've gotten.
>
> PTC.

IIRC, there was an analysis for this in another thread back in February:
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00175.html>.  This is fixed in the
snapshots: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00171.html>.  A
non-issue?
	Igor
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