SVN: Checksum mismatch problem

[Russ Allbery]

Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org> writes:

> I do that also, but I am also careful to prune repository
> directories (CVS, .svn or SCCS even).  I rather doubt it is my RAM,
> BTW.  Perhaps a disk sector, but I'll never know now.  (Were it RAM,
> the failure would be random and not just the one file.)  The original
> data were rm-ed and replaced with a new pull of the Ada code.

Yup, I've seen change of capitalization of a single letter in files due to
bad disk sectors before, even on relatively modern hardware.  It's a
single bit error, so it's an explainable failure mode.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>