[Savannah-help-public] Re: Really strange emacs-diffs message

[Stefan Monnier]

> Do you know what CVS action might have caused
> this peculiar message?

My guess is that it's a commit of the same revision number on a different
file, namely lisp/gnus/ChangeLog instead of lisp/ChangeLog.
The time stamp on the commit is within 3 seconds of the time stamp on
the email.  It's a commit where I committed 2 files: lisp/tabify.el and
lisp/gnus/ChangeLog (this second one was a mistake and I intended to commit
lisp/ChangeLog which I committed a minute later).

<speculation level=wild>
My best guess for what's going on is that some directory info gets lost
somewhere so that the two files get turned into "directory `lisp', files
tabify.el and ChangeLog".  It used to be the case that CVS only committed
(internally) a directory at a time, so such a representation made sense, but
maybe this internal limitation has been lifted recently thus breaking the
diff scripts.
</speculation>


        Stefan


> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:05:57 +0000
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Subject: [Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/lisp/ChangeLog,v
> To: address@hidden
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>

> CVSROOT:      /sources/emacs
> Module name:  emacs
> Changes by:   Stefan Monnier <monnier>        06/07/25 18:05:54

> Index: ChangeLog
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/ChangeLog,v
> retrieving revision 1.476
> retrieving revision 1.477
> diff -u -b -r1.476 -r1.477
> --- ChangeLog 21 Mar 2000 15:35:06 -0000      1.476
> +++ ChangeLog 21 Mar 2000 21:52:05 -0000      1.477
> @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
> +2000-03-21  Gerd Moellmann  <address@hidden>
> +
> +     * progmodes/etags.el (tags-case-fold-search): New user-option.
> +     (tags-loop-eval): New function.  Bind case-fold-search around eval
> +     depending on the value of tags-case-fold-search.
> +     (tags-loop-continue): Use tags-loop-eval.
> +     (find-tag-in-order): Bind case-fold-search depending on the value
> +     of tags-case-fold-search.
> +
>  2000-03-21  Stefan Monnier  <address@hidden>
 
>       * derived.el (define-derived-mode): Don't autoload anymore.



Index: lisp/gnus/ChangeLog
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.476
retrieving revision 1.477
diff -u -r1.476 -r1.477
--- lisp/gnus/ChangeLog 24 Jul 2006 10:53:10 -0000      1.476
+++ lisp/gnus/ChangeLog 25 Jul 2006 18:05:54 -0000      1.477
@@ -166,8 +166,7 @@
        (mm-display-part): Simplify.
        (mm-inlinable-p): Add optional arg `type'.
 
-       * gnus-art.el (gnus-mime-view-part-as-type): Add optional PRED
-       argument.
+       * gnus-art.el (gnus-mime-view-part-as-type): Add optional PRED arg.
        (gnus-mime-view-part-externally, gnus-mime-view-part-internally):
        Try harder to show the attachment internally or externally using
        gnus-mime-view-part-as-type.
@@ -177,8 +176,7 @@
        * gnus-art.el (gnus-mime-view-part-as-type-internal): Try to fetch
        `filename' from Content-Disposition if Content-Type doesn't
        provide `name'.
-       (gnus-mime-view-part-as-type): Set default instead of
-       initial-input.
+       (gnus-mime-view-part-as-type): Set default instead of initial-input.
 
 2006-04-28  Katsumi Yamaoka  <address@hidden>
 
@@ -201,8 +199,8 @@
 
        * mml-sec.el (mml-secure-method): New internal variable.
        (mml-secure-sign, mml-secure-encrypt, mml-secure-message-sign)
-       (mml-secure-message-sign-encrypt, mml-secure-message-encrypt): New
-       functions using mml-secure-method.  Sync from the trunk.
+       (mml-secure-message-sign-encrypt, mml-secure-message-encrypt):
+       New functions using mml-secure-method.  Sync from the trunk.
 
        * mml.el (mml-mode-map): Add key bindings for those functions.
        (mml-menu): Simplify security menu entries.  Suggested by Jesper
@@ -246,8 +244,8 @@
 
 2006-04-20  Reiner Steib  <address@hidden>
 
-       * gnus-util.el (gnus-replace-in-string): Prefer
-       replace-regexp-in-string over of replace-in-string.
+       * gnus-util.el (gnus-replace-in-string):
+       Prefer replace-regexp-in-string over of replace-in-string.
 
 2006-04-20  Katsumi Yamaoka  <address@hidden>
 
@@ -255,8 +253,8 @@
 
        * gnus-sum.el: Ditto.
 
-       * gnus-util.el (gnus-select-frame-set-input-focus): Use
-       select-frame-set-input-focus if it is available in XEmacs; use
+       * gnus-util.el (gnus-select-frame-set-input-focus):
+       Use select-frame-set-input-focus if it is available in XEmacs; use
        definition defined in Emacs 22 for old Emacsen.
 
 2006-04-17  Reiner Steib  <address@hidden>
@@ -268,13 +266,13 @@
        (mm-charset-to-coding-system): Use it.
        (mm-codepage-setup): New helper function.
        (mm-charset-eval-alist): New variable.
-       (mm-charset-to-coding-system): Use mm-charset-eval-alist.  Warn
-       about unknown charsets.  Add allow-override.  Use
-       `mm-charset-override-alist' only when decoding.
+       (mm-charset-to-coding-system): Use mm-charset-eval-alist.
+       Warn about unknown charsets.  Add allow-override.
+       Use `mm-charset-override-alist' only when decoding.
        (mm-detect-mime-charset-region): Use :mime-charset.
 
-       * mm-bodies.el (mm-decode-body, mm-decode-string): Call
-       `mm-charset-to-coding-system' with allow-override argument.
+       * mm-bodies.el (mm-decode-body, mm-decode-string):
+       Call `mm-charset-to-coding-system' with allow-override argument.
 
        * message.el (message-tool-bar-zap-list, message-tool-bar)
        (message-tool-bar-gnome, message-tool-bar-retro): New variables.
@@ -290,8 +288,8 @@
        `gmm-tool-bar-from-list'.
 
        * gnus-group.el (gnus-group-tool-bar, gnus-group-tool-bar-gnome)
-       (gnus-group-tool-bar-retro, gnus-group-tool-bar-zap-list): New
-       variables.
+       (gnus-group-tool-bar-retro, gnus-group-tool-bar-zap-list):
+       New variables.
        (gnus-group-make-tool-bar): Complete rewrite using
        `gmm-tool-bar-from-list'.
        (gnus-group-tool-bar-update): New function.
@@ -305,8 +303,8 @@
 
 2006-04-12  Reiner Steib  <address@hidden>
 
-       * gnus-art.el (gnus-article-mode): Set
-       cursor-in-non-selected-windows to nil.
+       * gnus-art.el (gnus-article-mode):
+       Set cursor-in-non-selected-windows to nil.
 
 2006-04-12  Katsumi Yamaoka  <address@hidden>
 
@@ -337,8 +335,7 @@
 
 2006-04-11  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen  <address@hidden>
 
-       * nnslashdot.el (nnslashdot-retrieve-headers-1): Fix up to new
-       layout.
+       * nnslashdot.el (nnslashdot-retrieve-headers-1): Fix up to new layout.
 
        * rfc2047.el (rfc2047-decode-encoded-words): Don't message about
        unknown charset.
@@ -400,13 +397,12 @@
 
        * gnus-agent.el (gnus-agent-queue-mail): Fix custom tag for `t'.
 
-       * spam.el (spam-mark-new-messages-in-spam-group-as-spam): Add
-       comment on version.
+       * spam.el (spam-mark-new-messages-in-spam-group-as-spam):
+       Add comment on version.
 
 2006-03-20  Teodor Zlatanov  <address@hidden>
 
-       * spam.el (spam-mark-new-messages-in-spam-group-as-spam): New
-       variable.
+       * spam.el (spam-mark-new-messages-in-spam-group-as-spam): New variable.
        (spam-mark-junk-as-spam-routine): Use it.  Allow to disable
        assigning the spam-mark to new messages.
 
@@ -437,14 +433,14 @@
 
        * gnus-art.el (gnus-article-only-boring-p):
        Bind inhibit-point-motion-hooks to avoid infinite loop when entering
-       intangible text.  Reported by Ralf Wachinger
-       <address@hidden>.
+       intangible text.
+       Reported by Ralf Wachinger <address@hidden>.
 
 2006-03-14  Simon Josefsson  <address@hidden>
 
        * message.el (message-unique-id): Don't use message-number-base36
-       if (user-uid) is a float.  Reported by Bjorn Solberg
-       <address@hidden>.
+       if (user-uid) is a float.
+       Reported by Bjorn Solberg <address@hidden>.
 
 2006-03-13  Katsumi Yamaoka  <address@hidden>