cvs problems ...

[Dave Korn]

> -----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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