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Date:      Sun, 3 Jan 2010 21:57:13 +0600
From:      Victor Sudakov <sudakov+freebsd@sibptus.tomsk.ru>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file"
Message-ID:  <20100103155713.GB63734@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4B40BADC.6060407@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20091231033244.GA5631@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <4B3CC72F.9030904@andric.com> <op.u5xkb1r91e62zd@merlin.emma.line.org> <4B408745.3030309@andric.com> <4B40BADC.6060407@FreeBSD.org>

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Doug Barton wrote:
> I was not going to reply on this thread at all, but the amount of
> random speculation has now reached a pathological level.
> 
> The spurious new line at the end of a file has nothing to do with svn,
> it is an artifact of how the file was originally transferred to the
> cvsup mirror. 

My mirror was created from scratch by cvsup. What artifacts are you
talking about?

> The checksum mismatch will be triggered a few different
> ways, the most common is to switch between cvsup and csup, and/or
> switching mirrors for the same checked out tree.

I am afraid you are mistaken. I have never switched between cvsup and
csup. I have even recreated a mirror from scratch, and the "Checksum
mismatch" error appears at the next run of cvsup.

> 
> The message is harmless, it's not an error, and in fact you can take
> the message as a reassuring sign that the system is working exactly as
> designed.  :)

Except for the fact that the -L0 switch has become completely useless.
All the "Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file" are L0
messages, i.e. they ARE error messages.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru



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