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Re: Nasty assertion error when trying to checkout a tagged revision
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Bruce Pennypacker |
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Re: Nasty assertion error when trying to checkout a tagged revision |
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Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:40:59 -0400 |
Larry Jones wrote:
>Bruce Pennypacker writes:
>>
>> > cvs checkout -r RA0irbl011631
>> corp/search/c++/applications/summarizerService/SummarizerService.cpp
>> > cvs: lock.c:177: lock_name: Assertion `(__extension__
>[...]
>> > (CVSroot_directory)))) == 0' failed.
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>That generally indicates that one or more of the directories in that
>path are really symbolic links, which confuses the CVS lock code.
Bingo. We just moved the repository for maintainence reasons and added a
symlink to keep the old path valid. I guess we'll either have to move the
repository back or set up a different root for it...
-Bruce