[Codestriker-user] obscure bug in codestriker

[Clendenan, D. <dav...@po...>]

I'm using 'cvs rdiff -D ...' to generate diffs in my scheduled review
generation, and I've come across an odd bug.

Yesterday I removed two binary files (libraries) from a directory, and
added a text placeholder.  Rdiff -D gives the initial rev as /dev/null
for the text file, since it didn't exist on the start date.  Using the
file generated this way gives a review of the diff file literally,
instead of the files it contains.

If the new file is the only one in the topic file I upload, it works
fine, if there are files after it, it breaks.

has anyone seen behaviour like this before?

Any idea where I should look to fix it?

thanks

Dave


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diff command used: 
cvs -d :pserver:dave_clendenan@MyCvsServer:/usr/local/CVS rdiff -u  -D "28 Oct 2004 23:59" -D "29 Oct 2004 23:59" MODULE/path/to/file/ > striker_bug2.txt

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result file:

Index: MODULE/path/to/file/placeholder.txt
diff -u /dev/null MODULE/path/to/file/placeholder.txt:1.1
--- /dev/null	Sat Oct 30 12:00:48 2004
+++ MODULE/path/to/file/placeholder.txt	Fri Oct 29 16:01:37 2004
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+hi
+
Index: MODULE/path/to/file/rvh323Logs_40.a
Index: MODULE/path/to/file/rvh323_40.a