cvs problems ...

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 02:54:28PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
>Christopher Faylor writes:
> > On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 02:28:42PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > >Diego Novillo writes:
> > > > On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 09:14, Dave Korn wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > I don't currently have an up-to-date tree checked out, but you guys might
> > > > > like to give it another go.
> > > > > 
> > > > [ Adding overseers@ ]
> > > > 
> > > > Nope.  It's still hosed:
> > > > 
> > > > cvs checkout: Updating gcc/boehm-gc/doc
> > > > cvs [checkout aborted]: branch attribute does not match file for `/cvs/gcc/gcc/boehm-gc/doc/simple_example.html,v'
> > >
> > >That is at least a different file, so whatever worked for
> > >NT_STATIC_THREADS_MAKEFILE will presumably work again.
> > 
> > Right.  Different directory.
> > 
> > Ok.  I have just zeroed every fileattr file in the gcc repository.
> > 
> > Maybe I should write a cron job to do that occasionally so that these
> > types of problems will be "fixed" eventually without human intervention.
> > 
> > At the expense of occasional slowdowns in cvs access, of course.
>
>Well, I'd like to finish my checkin without breaking things.  Working
>on the theory that CVS doesn't like big checkins, I'll do
>per-directory checkins on my branch.

I don't think that CVS should care about big checkins.  It's aborted
operations (checkin or possibly even checkout) which can cause problems.

cgf