Question

I have a WinXP installation using RcsLite as the store. I have a SuSE linux installation using RcsWrap as the store. I assumed that the *.txt,v file formats would be the same between the two stores; however, something is wrong.

When I copied a web from the WinXP server to the linux server, every topic in the web lost access to its history. From a command line rlog reported an error something like bad line for diff Visual inspection (mark one eyeball) of the file formats from a newly generated/edited topic with forced revisions on the linux side with an old topic moved from the WinXP side didn't turn up anything. I need to do an exact comparison of the same topic with the same history in order to check by automation the file differences.

Changing the store in the linux server to RcsLite made things work. Even topics created and modified under RcsWrap were working correctly under RcsLite.

Its version 5.7 RCS on SuSE.

Any thoughts on what might be going on while I generate an automated test?

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-- DewayneVanHoozer - 15 Aug 2007

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Odd. They should be compatible, and a cursory test suggests they are (I regularly switch between them on the same set of topics during dev testing). However the unit tests for RcsWrap and RcsLite are individually rather self-contained; we don't aggressively test compatibility between the two. Perhaps someone should. I'll be interested to hear the results of your investigations.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 25 Aug 2007

I would presume that the problem is due to line ending differences .

try converting the windows ,v files (when you move them to linux with dos2unix - if that fixes it, then :}

-- SvenDowideit - 25 Aug 2007

Sorry, closing this after more than 30 days of inactivity. Please feel free to reopen the question.

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Oct 2007