CVS Outage (now)

[Ville Skyttä]

On Friday 07 November 2008, Till Maas wrote:
> On Fri November 7 2008, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > >>>>> "SL" == Sven Lankes <sven at lank.es> writes:
> >
> > SL> You need to use 'cvs update -d' - cvs update doesn't include new
> > SL> directories by default.
> >
> > It's a good idea to do something like
> >
> > echo "update -dPA" >> ~/.cvsrc
>
> Do we use sticky stuff (I do not really understand what this does) in
> Fedora, i.e. is -A useful here?

I don't think any of the Fedora infrastructure uses branches in the 
traditional way that would cause -A to end up switching branches.  If, 
however -A blows away for example -ko or -kb settings from the repository, 
then it's actively harmful (I don't think it does, though).  It will also 
interfere with working on traditional branches if one creates them in Fedora 
CVS, ditto with any other project that uses such branches one might be 
working on.  Personally there's no way I'd want -A for "update" in my .cvsrc.