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Wow, just hit RCS bug
- From: tednolan at bellsouth dot net
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 12:09:22 -0400
- Subject: Wow, just hit RCS bug
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
I just hit the worst Cygwin bug I've encountered, the RCS bug which
silently corrupts text files > 256K. That's the last thing I expect
from a version control system!
After some moments of panic, I was able to retrieve a good copy from
backups, but have lost my revision history.
Anyway, I immediately did a list search and found this is a known bug.
Shouldn't this package be pulled?
Just for the record, the suggested env var fix
RCS_MEM_LIMIT=0
to "force stdio" does not work for me, but the
RCS_MEM_LIMIT=10240
to allow 10megs of diffs does..
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