Re: Checksum failure: serious problem or not?

[Eric Siegerman]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:45:00PM -0800, Mark D. Baushke wrote:
> In theory, the server had a copy of the client file to do the patch in
> the first place and the client copy either became stale or was corrupted
> while the server copy was being used to generate a patch.

Or the client file changed but its timestamp did not.  In a
sandbox in which file foo needs to be updated ("U" status from
"cvs -nq update"):
    $ cp -p foo foo.stamp
    $ vi foo    # make some changes
    $ touch -r foo.stamp foo
    $ cvs ci foo
If it's a remote sandbox, that provokes the checksum error
followed by a full fetch; whether the sandbox is remote or local,
the user's changes are irrecoverably lost.  (I don't know how
that situation might occur in real usage; I did it artificially
while researching my previous message in this thread :-)

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