Re: Info-cvs Digest, Vol 27, Issue 40

[Spiro Trikaliotis]

Hello,

* On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 09:45:40AM -0700 Mark E. Hamilton wrote:
 
> Using 'update -A' will reset any sticky tags. What if his file is
> checked out from a branch? Wouldn't this get him the wrong working
> copy?

This is correct.

> ><here, you need to copy the original jar file back over the sandbox
> >version, as the sandbox version is corrupted>
> >cvs commit
> 
> Why would you need to do this? I thought that keywords were only
> expanded when the file was updated/checked-out/exported, so that the
> file in the repository should be okay; just the working version is
> corrupted.

Not necessarily. If you are operating from a machine that uses CR/LF
(for example, Windows), than the CR/LF was converted on check in, thus,
the repository version is corrupted, too.

> The instructions I've given our users is to do this:
> 
> cvs admin -kb <file_name> cvs update <file_name>
> 
> which has always seemed to work in the past. Are there situations
> where the repository file could be corrupted, so that this wouldn't
> work?

If you are working from Unix boxes solely, this works as expected. If
not, chances are you have to check in a new binary file.

Regards,
   Spiro.

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