I have installed Jenkins version 1.599 on windows and configured Jenkins with cvs and able to checkout from cvs by checking Skip changelog option. But after unchecking this option I am getting the following error on running the build:
cvs rlog -S -d06 Mar 2015 18:49:11 +0500<09 Mar 2015 14:54:14 +0500 ns cvs [rlog aborted]: premature end of value in /home/cvs/src/ns/stencils/statements/Attic/CheckTemplateUCPA.rtf,v revision 1.6
FATAL: Error while trying to run CVS rlog java.lang.RuntimeException: Error while trying to run CVS rlog
at hudson.scm.AbstractCvs.executeRlog(AbstractCvs.java:691)
at hudson.scm.AbstractCvs.access$100(AbstractCvs.java:80)
at hudson.scm.AbstractCvs$2.invoke(AbstractCvs.java:663)
at hudson.scm.AbstractCvs$2.invoke(AbstractCvs.java:660)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:989)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:967)
at hudson.scm.AbstractCvs.getRemoteLogForModule(AbstractCvs.java:660)
at hudson.scm.AbstractCvs.calculateChangeLog(AbstractCvs.java:779)
at hudson.scm.AbstractCvs.postCheckout(AbstractCvs.java:794)
at hudson.scm.CVSSCM.checkout(CVSSCM.java:351)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1270)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:609)
at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:86)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:531)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1718)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:89)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:240)
My CVS Plugin version is 2.11
My cvs version is Concurrent Versions System (CVSNT) 2.0.51d (client/server)
Any idea? Is there any way to use the cvs log command for polling and the tag command for tagging (rather than rlog and rtag) without downgrading?
The 'premature end of value' message is generated by the CVS Server when it has trouble applying a diff between different versions of a file. Whilst not using rlog would work around this, the actual fix would be to resolve the issue on your CVS server.
Unfortunately Jenkins does not currently support using anything other than rlog for calculating changes and creating the changelog.