Re: pcl-cvs and quiet-behaving cvs

[Joseph Kiniry]

Hi Stefan,

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> I am currently running PCL-CVS in Emacs 22.0.50.1 with cvs 1.11.18.
>
>> My setup has worked for many years, through many version upgrades of
>> Emacs, cvs, ssh, bash, etc.  I keep an enourmous amount of information
>> in CVS including my full home directory, etc.
>
>> Recently, PCL-CVS has started behaving strangely with only one of my
>> CVS servers.  The server is a Fedora Core 3 box running cvs 1.11.17.
>
>> In particular, cvs always seems to run as if the -q or -Q switches had
>> been passed to it, regardless of -f use, which seriously confuses
>> PCL-CVS.  I do not have a .cvsrc, I have tested with an without cvs
>> - -f, I have checked logs, I have run with emacs -q, etc.
>
>> I am nearly reduced to doing some experiments with running over an
>> unencrypted connection and tcpdump-ing to see what the heck is going
>> on.
>
>> Has anyone seen this kind of problem before?  Any suggestions?
>
> This seems to be unrelated to PCL-CVS or even Emacs.  Better ask on the
> info-cvs mailing-list.  Maybe you're accessing the server via ssh and the
> remote account has a ~/.cvsrc which includes "cvs -q" ?
>
>
>         Stefan

The problem was indeed the fact that the *remote* account (not the
local one) had a ~/.cvsrc file.  

It is not clear to me that a .cvsrc on the CVS server should be used
at all, or especially when cvs's -f switch is used, as in this case.

This behavior is unmentioned in the documentation, info or manpage, on
the .cvsrc file.  I will submit a bug report on such.

Thanks for your nudge; it helped me find the problem.

Best,
Joe
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Joseph Kiniry
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