Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 13:05:35 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com.au> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: jdp@polstra.com, ache@nagual.pp.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG, xaa@stack.nl Subject: Re: CVSUP and CVS branches: still not synchronized, please fix! Message-ID: <199707050505.NAA03826@spinner.dialix.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 05 Jul 1997 09:12:55 %2B1000." <199707042312.JAA08733@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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Bruce Evans wrote: > >> Perhaps the cvs bug that caused histedit.h to reappear in all > >> checked out trees only affects cvsup for disklabel.5.5. > > > >I think the problem is a botch in the CVS repository. (Hi, Peter!) > > > > RCS file: disklabel.5.5,v > >... > > ---------------------------- > > revision 1.1.1.2 > > date: 1995/12/30 18:51:57; author: peter; state: dead; lines: +0 -0 > > recording cvs-1.6 file death > > ---------------------------- > >... > >Notice that the death of the file was recorded in 1.1.1.2, which > >is on the vendor branch. This should never happen. CVS will never > > There are a few :-) other files like this - everything that was moved to > the attic between 1993 and 1995 before cvs-1.6 potentially has it; 2065 > of 5809 files in attics have "recording cvs-1.6 file death". cvs supplies (or supplied) a script to convert "pre-death-support" repositories (ie: those using Attics as the primary indication of "alive") to the newer "state: dead" form. Hmm.. it seems to have gone, it was called "convert.sh". > Bruce Cheers, -Peter
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