cvs repository broken?

[Paolo Bonzini]

>> It is a small metadata cache that is maintained by CVS.  It can get 
>> inconsistent, the most common cause being a network connection going 
>> down during a checkin.  Luckily it is easily detected and easily fixed.
> 
> or one noticing the little
>     ChangeLog appears to contain change markers
> message, and hitting ^C

... and quickly googling the error message as soon as the retried 
checkin inexorably fails :-)  I wonder why does not CVS say 
abort/continue in that case, warning and going on is plain stupid...

And strictly speaking the network connection does go down upon ^C :-)

Paolo