From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 3 06:38:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA26947 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 06:38:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA26940 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 06:38:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id PAA18946; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 15:33:07 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA02928; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 15:33:07 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id OAA26337; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 14:30:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610031230.OAA26337@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Possibly smoked my cvs tree :-( To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 14:30:06 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Khetan Gajjar at "Oct 3, 96 00:17:44 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Khetan Gajjar wrote: > [chain] /usr/home/ncvs# ctm ../ctm/cvs-cur.2522.gz > DM: ports/mail/mailagent exists. > DM: ports/mail/mailagent/files exists. > DM: ports/mail/mailagent/patches exists. > DM: ports/mail/mailagent/pkg exists. > DM: ports/mail/mailagent/scripts exists. > FN: CVSROOT/commitlogs/CVSROOT md5 mismatch. > FN: CVSROOT/commitlogs/CVSROOT edit fails. > Exit(120) > [chain] /usr/home/ncvs# > > I think I might have smoked the tree :-( Now, I'm a dial up user, so I > don't want to re-download the whole tree again. Is there any way for me to > take the tree back to say, cvs-cur.2450 and apply all the deltas since > then ? Apart from CVSup, what i'm doing in this case is: remove the entire CVS tree, extract it from my last backup tape, and re-apply the CTM deltas. Takes an hour perhaps, but doesn't cost me any online money. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)