Re: CVS export

[Stewart Brodie]

In message <address@hidden>
          address@hidden (John Minnihan) wrote:

> address@hidden wrote:
> 
> > Plus I seem to recall that in CVS 1.10.8, you cannot export directories
> > that have default log messages specified in rcsinfo (you get an error
> > about not being able to create CVS/Entries files). We would use 1.11.1p1,
> > but we've had to revert to 1.10.8 as CVS 1.11.1p1 dies with protocol
> > errors all over the place during the nightly checkouts.
> 
> 
> I had the 'protocol error:uncounted data' checkout failures too.  The 
> frequency of the errors increased as the repository grew.  I took a  gamble
> that it was less of a CVS-caused error and more of a CVS reaction  to the
> system. This was after reading the source, and groking it only a  little
> bit.  After adding more RAM (very inexpensive these days) to my  repository
> server, the problem hasn't reappeared.

Interesting.  As part of my investigation of what caused the protocol errors,
I amended our CVS server to dump out this uncounted data (on protocol_inbuf)
to a debug file to see exactly what it was that it wasn't expected.  The very
first thing in the debug file was the content of the log message template,
followed by the parts of the component being checked out that never ended up
on the client.

I have placed a copy of the file - it's binary, so not suitable for
e-mail/news - on our support website if anybody feels inclined to look at it.

http://www.support.pace.co.uk/~sbrodie/info-cvs/

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Stewart Brodie, Senior Software Engineer
Pace Micro Technology PLC
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