[savannah-help-public] [sr #109340] Checking for new files with "cvs -qn update" always times out

[Gavin D. Smith]

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                 Summary: Checking for new files with "cvs -qn update" always
times out
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: gavin
            Submitted on: Fri 23 Jun 2017 06:08:39 PM UTC
                Category: Webpages repositories
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

I would like to know if there are new pages I need to track with "cvs add" for
a new version of a manual. I have seen "cvs -qn update" as the recommended
command to do this, but it doesn't work very well.

$ cvs -qn update
? texinfo/html_node/Obsolete-_0040_002dCommands.html
? texinfo/html_node/texi2any-Environment-Variables.html
vcs0.savannah.gnu.org: Connection timed out
cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)
$ cvs -qn update
vcs0.savannah.gnu.org: Connection timed out
cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)
$ cvs -qn update
vcs0.savannah.gnu.org: Connection timed out
cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

As you see above, I got told about two files I needed to add, but then it
timed out, so I didn't know if there were any more. I tried it again twice and
it timed out both times.

I found a work-around to do it in a lower level of directory:

$ cd texinfo/html_node/
$ cvs -qn update

This completed without any error being printed. So I would have to know which
subdirectories could have updated files and run "cvs -qn update" in each one.
In my case, this is not difficult to do.




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