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Date:      Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:43:54 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), arch@FreeBSD.ORG, bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein)
Subject:   Re: NO MORE '-BETA'
Message-ID:  <200103182343.QAA18756@usr05.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010318153033.A19886@dragon.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at Mar 18, 2001 03:30:33 PM

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> > > care to do.  How does CVSup in checkout mode handle local mods?
> > 
> > Its head explodes.
> 
> "check out" mode -- ie, _NOT_ CVSuping the repo, just doing the equiv of
> a ``cvs co''.

Its head still explodes because of the greedy diff algorithm.
Using "cvs diff -rx.x -rHEAD | patch" often works around the
problem, but you still have to dick with it.

Believe me: I've been fighting this problem since 1994.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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