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Error Handling In pcl-cvs
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The pcl-cvs program has historically had an odd way of dealing with
error and informational messages from CVS (although this may be
corrected in the latest versions).  When it encounters a message from
CVS that it doesn't know about, it gets hysterical and throws you into a
mail buffer, ready to send a pregenerated bug report to the author of
pcl-cvs.  Unfortunately, among the CVS messages that pcl-cvs may not
know about are the ones associated with conflicting merges, which,
although not common, certainly do occur from time to time.

If pcl-cvs suddenly dumps you into a mail buffer, don't panic.  Read
over the contents of the buffer carefully - the offending CVS output
should be in there somewhere.  If it looks like a merge, you can just
get rid of the mail buffer and rerun cvs-update.  It should now succeed,
because CVS won't output any merge messages (because the merge has
already taken place).

(Update: this problem appears to have been fixed in more recent versions
of pcl-cvs, so very probably you can ignore this entire warning.)