[Zope-Coders] removing RCS ids causes error on startup

[Shane Hathaway]

Steve Alexander wrote:

> I used this from the ZopeCVS FAQ to update my sandbox branch with the HEAD.
> 
> ----
> Note that you can also use the -kk option with cvs update to avoid 
> spurious conflict messages (when the only things that conflict are the 
> RCS expansions) when you are performing merges:
> 
> cvs update -kk -d -j brian-foo-branch
> ----
> 
> However, I find that ZServer/medusa/resolver.py won't start up, because 
> of this:
> 
> RCS_ID =  '$Id$'
> 
> ...
> 
> VERSION = string.split(RCS_ID)[2]
> 
> 
> When I fix that (by sticking a valid RCS id in), I'm getting core dumps 
> all of a sudden... I don't know whether removing RCS ids could cause 
> that though, or whether it is something else I'm doing, or something 
> wrong with the trunk.

Did you mean to use "cvs update -dP -r brian-foo-branch"?  That way you 
get the repository as Brian sees it.  -j gives you a combination of 
whatever branch you're in and the given branch, which might not be 
compatible.

Shane