[Python-Dev] SF CVS question

Thomas Heller theller at python.net
Fri May 14 16:01:42 EDT 2004


"Tim Peters" <tim.one at comcast.net> writes:

> [Thomas Heller]
>> When doing 'cvs -n update', I get a warning like this:
>>   cvs server: WARNING: global `-l´ option ignored.
>>
>> Does anyone else get the same? Is there something wrong with my
>> configuration?  It also occurrs on other SF cvs repositories, not only
>> with python.
>
> LOL!  I never tried cvs -n before.  Here was my result:
>
> C:\Code\python>cvs -n up
> CVS.EXE update: inflate: unknown compression method
> CVS.EXE [update aborted]: reading from server: Input/output error
> Write failed flushing stdout buffer.
> write stdout: Broken pipe

That looks more like the more or less transient error I get from SF from
time to time.  cvs -n up is useful to display the state of the files in
the sandbox.  And pcl-cvs (from inside xemacs) uses this when you do a
M-x cvs-examine.
>
> A regular "cvs up" (no -n) still works fine.

Yes.  Sometimes ;-)

Thomas




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