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RE: cvs problems ...
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: "'Andrew Haley'" <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "'Andreas Tobler'" <toa at pop dot agri dot ch>,<gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>,"'Richard Kenner'" <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>,<overseers at gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:54:34 +0100
- Subject: RE: cvs problems ...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Haley [mailto:aph@redhat.com]
> Sent: 08 October 2004 13:10
> > The problem is related to checking in the file on a branch breaks
> > the cvs server for some reason.
>
> Oh dear. I don't remember seeing this mentioned on gcc list, but
> maybe it was.
>
> This means every time someone does a merge to branch we'll lose the
> server.
Oh look! Ian Lance Taylor would _definitely_ be a good person to discuss
this with, considering he apparently wrote that error message in the first
place!
https://www.cvshome.org/dev/patches/meta
-------------------------snip!-------------------------
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 03:09:36 -0500
From: Ian Lance Taylor
To: bug-cvs
Subject: Re: TODO item 62 proposal
. . .
A version of the Cygnus patch concerning separating out some metadata
is at http://www.cyclic.com/cvs/dev-metadata.html ("simple form of
separated metadata").
Here is a version of the patch against CVS 1.10.
Ian
-------------------------snip!-------------------------
+ if (STREQ (RCSBRANCH, key)
+ && (value == NULL
+ ? rdata->branch != NULL
+ : (rdata->branch == NULL
+ || strncmp (value, rdata->branch,
+ strlen (rdata->branch)) != 0)))
+ {
+ error (1, 0, "branch attribute does not match file for `%s'",
+ rcsfile);
+ }
-------------------------snip!-------------------------
However considering his likely $TZ setting it might be a few hours yet
before he's available.
Oh look, it happened again even more recently than the last one I found.
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/overseers/2004-q3/msg00166.html
cheers,
DaveK
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