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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: CVSUP and CVS branches: still not synchronized, please fix! 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 05 Jul 1997 09:12:55 +1000."
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Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 13:05:35 +0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com.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