Dear CVS experts
We experience some annoying problems with files that appears to be locally
modified
in WinCVS 1.3.4.3 Beta 4, although they are not. We have had these problems
from time
to time the last year
Scenario:
1. Working copies on local drives on Win2K machines.
2. Repository on company network drive on a Win2K server.
3. In CVS Preferences: authentication is set to local.
That is, we have no real CVS server running, but use the file system.
Symptoms:
1. Occasionally and typical overnight close to dates where daylight time zone
changes appear and in about a month hereafter,
a significant fraction of local files appear to be locally modified
in the GUI. This can also happen if files are checked out read-only.
2. Running CVS diff shows that there is no difference between the local copy
and
the repository.
3. Doing a cvs update on the file has no effect. It still appears lcally
modified.
4. Locally removing the file followed by a CVS update (to get a fresh copy)
sometimes fixes the problem. That is, the fresh file sometimes goes from red to
white in the GUI.
5. Although our machines (four developers) are setup identical,
it is not the same files that appears modified on all machines.
Analysis:
1. We understand that in WinCVS 1.2, there was a "Daylight time zone bug", that
displayed such symptoms, but as far as we understand this bug should have been
fixed
in all 1.3.* versions. Is that correct?
2. Another likely cause could be time synchronization problems between our
local
working copies and the CVS repository file server. However, this does not
appear to be the problem.
Our machines are time synchronized with the file server several times a day.
The time
zone on the file server is also correct.
Does anyone have any ideas on the possible reason(s) for this problem???
Best wishes,
Kim Hansen
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