1 See the Cederqvist manual (cvs.texinfo) for information on how to
2 report bugs (and what will happen to your bug reports if you do).
4 The following is a list of some of the known bugs. It may or may not
5 be comprehensive. We would dearly love for people to volunteer to
6 help us keep it up to date (for starters, if you notice any
7 inaccuracies, please let bug-cvs know as described in the Cederqvist
8 manual). There are some other reported bugs in MINOR-BUGS; the
9 difference, at least in theory, is that those bugs are less serious.
12 * For platform-specific information (in some cases including known
13 bugs), see README.VMS, windows-NT/README, or os2/README. There is no
14 similar file for the unix-like operating systems (not yet, at least).
15 This file also might contain some platform-specific bugs.
18 * If your login name contains a space or various other characters
19 (particularly an issue on Windows), CVS will have trouble (it will
20 write invalid RCS files, probably). The fix would be to have CVS
21 change such characters to underscores before writing them to the RCS
22 file. Furthermore, the LOGNAME or USER environment variables usually
23 won't override the system login name, so this can be hard to work
27 * If you specify the -w global option to client/server CVS, it only
28 overrides a CVSREAD environment variable set on the client, not a
29 CVSREAD variable which was set on the server (for example, in .bashrc
30 when the server was run via rsh). The fix of course will be to
31 provide a "Option-read-write" request which sends -w, in addition to
32 "Global_option -r" which sends -r.
35 * Symbolic links to files will not work with or without LockDir. In the
36 repository, you should avoid using symbolic links to files since this issue
37 can cause data loss. Symlinks are only a problem when writing files. If your
38 repository does not allow any write access, symlinks are not a problem.
41 * Symbolic links to directories will not work with LockDir. In the
42 repository, you should avoid using symbolic links to directories if
43 you intend to use LockDir as the correct directory will NOT be locked
44 by CVS during write. Directory symlinks are not recommended, but should work
45 as long as LockDir is not being used. Symlinks are only a problem when
46 writing files. If your repository does not allow any write access, symlinks
47 are never a problem, whether or not LockDir is in use.
50 * The -m option to "cvs add" does not work with client/server CVS.
51 CVS will accept the option, but it won't actually set the
55 * cvs update walks into a user's work directory if there's a directory
56 of the same name in the repository even if the user's directory
57 doesn't yet have a CVS admin sub-directory. This can greatly confuse
58 users who try to add the same directory at nearly the same time.
61 * From: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@ai.mit.edu>
62 To: info-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu
63 Subject: Still one more bug
64 Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 17:01:15 -0500
66 mycroft@duality [1]; cd /usr/src/lib/libc
67 mycroft@duality [1]; cvs diff -C2 '-D1 day ago' -Dnow
69 cvs server: Diffing DB
70 cvs [server aborted]: could not chdir to DB: No such file or directory
73 `DB' is an old directory, which no longer has files in it, and is
74 removed automatically when I use the `-P' option to checkout.
76 This error doesn't occur when run locally.
78 P.S. Is anyone working on fixing these bugs?
81 * CVS does not always seem to be waiting to the next filesystem timestamp
82 quanta after commits. So far this has only shown up in testing under the BSDI
83 OS. The symptoms are that ocassionally CVS will not notice that modified files
84 are modified, though the file must be modified within a short time after the
85 commit, probably milliseconds or seconds, for this symptom to be noticed. One
86 suspected cause is that one of the calls to sleep_past() is being called with
87 an incorrect value, though this does not explain why symptoms have only been
91 * The CVS server is leaving a temp directory (/tmp/cvs-serv*) on AIX 4.3 under
92 very rare circumstances (one out of c. 10,500 test cases). This appears to be
93 dependent on some sort of race condition as it disappears with tracing enabled
94 and under the debugger. Informative feedback is welcome.
97 * UNICOS 9.0 on Cray currently fails testing in both client/server and
103 This experimental version of CVS contains new features which may not have
104 been tested as thoroughly as the stable release. It is classified as:
110 /*-------------------------.
111 | Sane for full scale use. |
112 `-------------------------*/