Re: Problem with cvs ci of modified dead file

[Bill Studenmund]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Ingolf Steinbach wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 07:28:15PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > I had checked out a source directory and started modifying it. One of my
> > coleagues deleted some of the files. I found out about this when I did a
> > cvs update. As I had extensive local mods to the files, the file contents
> > survived death. I checked things over, and then committed my versions of
> > the files.
> >
> > I ended up with "live" versions of the file (cvs diff showed no
> > differences, cvs update didn't change things), but when ever I (or anyone
> > else) tried to check out the files to a new tree, the files didn't show
> > up.
>
> Did you try
>
>     cvs add distinfo
>
> to "resurrect" the file? But nevertheless, I'm not sure why the commit
> did work for a dead file...

While it was a zombie? Yes. cvs complained that the file already existed
(I don't have a log of the exact message).

I had not done a cvs add before the zombie-creating checkin. I did though
do a cvs update to see if the files showed up as '? ...' or not, and they
didn't. I'm not sure if they showed up as 'M ....' though.

Take care,

Bill