Bug 55430
| Summary: | cvs diff rejects the --side-by-side or -y option | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Tim Mann <redhat-bugzilla> |
| Component: | cvs | Assignee: | Eido Inoue <havill> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Aaron Brown <abrown> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.2 | ||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-10-29 18:42:45 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description of Problem: cvs diff rejects the --side-by-side or -y option Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cvs-1.11.1p1-3 How Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Let "Makefile" be a file in the current directory that is under CVS control. 2. Set CVSROOT to your local pserver. (I was only able to test in client/server mode.) 3. Type "cvs diff --side-by-side Makefile" or "cvs diff -y Makefile" Actual Results: cvs server: invalid option -- y Usage: cvs server [-lNR] [rcsdiff-options] [[-r rev1 | -D date1] [-r rev2 | -D date2]] [files...] -l Local directory only, not recursive -R Process directories recursively. -D d1 Diff revision for date against working file. -D d2 Diff rev1/date1 against date2. -N include diffs for added and removed files. -r rev1 Diff revision for rev1 against working file. -r rev2 Diff rev1/date1 against rev2. --ifdef=arg Output diffs in ifdef format. (consult the documentation for your diff program for rcsdiff-options. The most popular is -c for context diffs but there are many more). (Specify the --help global option for a list of other help options) Expected Results: A side-by-side diff. Additional Information: Interestingly, the error message is "invalid option -- y" even if the option is spelled as --side-by-side. "strings /usr/bin/cvs" shows that the binary contains the string side-by-side. So evidently the program recognizes the option, translates it to -y, and then rejects it.