Re: cvs update: move away xyz; it is in the way

[Mike Castle]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:41:09AM -0800, Chad Loder wrote:
> Hello. I'm getting inexplicable messages when updating
> my CVS sources:
> 
> cvs update: move away foo.c; it is in the way
> 
> where foo.c is a file that's still in the archive,
> whose sandbox version is up-to-date w.r.t. the repository
> version, and so on...I've never touched the thing.

Is there still an entry for it in CVS/Entries?

Perhaps that file got corrupt somehow?

> I saw some posts in the mail archives about this sort
> of thing, with some responses giving implausible
> explanations. :)

I used to see it all the time on Win32 systems where people had two files
of the same name but mixed case.  :-/

> What should I be looking at, if I really want to know
> what's causing this and how to stop it.

Move the file out of the way, do an update, and then verify that they
actually do have the same contents.

mrc
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