Re: how to prevent cvs from locking?

[DC]

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:42:57 -0400, DC <address@hidden> wrote:

>On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:47:29 -0400, Jim Hyslop <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>DC wrote:
>>> I would rather put a non-existant email address out there, then one that im 
>>> never going to look at. At least they might get a bounce back if
>>> it dosn't exist.  But, for the sake of newsgroup postings, I have created a 
>>> gmail account.
>>[snicker] Nice name for the spam trap.
>>
>>> it is a very small group of developers. Most of the time they will be in 
>>> completely different places on the branch.
>>Doesn't matter. All it takes is for someone to do a repository-wide 
>>command, such as applying a tag, at the same time as someone else is 
>>trying to write to the repository and your repository will become 
>>corrupted, possibly beyond repair.
>>
>> > For the most part people
>>> don't touch each others files, and when they do there is usually a 
>>> discussion of how/what/what/etc before hand.
>>Ah, the strong, strong smell of code ownership.
>>
>>> If it were my descision I would set this up so that people create files as 
>>> username:cvspub rather then cvspub:cvspub.
>>That's reasonable.
>>
>>> I would also make it
>>> so that two people could not checkout the same file at the same time.
>>That's not ;=) Remember that the "C" in "CVS" stands for "Concurrent" - 
>>CVS is designed specifically to allow and handle concurrent 
>>modifications to files. But that's another rant for another day, and 
>>doesn't solve your immediate problem, which is:
>agreed :)
>
>
>>
>>> Error:
>>> cvs: rcs.c:4114: RCS_checkout: Assertion `rev == ((void *)0) || 
>>> ((*__ctype_b_loc ())[(int) (((unsigned char) *rev))] & (unsigned short int)
>>> _ISdigit)' failed. 
>>> Terminated with fatal signal 11 
>>
>>Because CVS gets this fatal signal, it doesn't get a chance to clean up 
>>after itself. The lock files are left behind, causing problems for the 
>>next person who comes along.
>>
>>Larry Jones has suggested this error means your repository file is 
>>corrupted. If other users try to check out the file, do they get the 
>>same crash?
>>
>>Download the source code from www.nongnu.org/cvs, and run the 
>>validate_repo script in the contrib/ directory. This will scan the 
>>repository for corrupted files. If the file is corrupted, the easiest 
>>course of action is to restore it from your most recent backup. Also, 
>>you must try to determine how it got corrupted in the first place, 
>>otherwise this problem could happen again.
>
>
>Im trying the validate_repo script now... before I did that, i went on my 
>computer and checked out the HEAD branch without any trouble what
>so ever.
>
>
>


List of corrupted files
**** File: site/includes/Tools.php
List of Files That Don't belong in Repository:
**** File: site/customer/includes/#cvs.rfl.dev.example.com.5532
**** File: site/customer/includes/#cvs.rfl.dev.example.com.15515
**** File: site/customer/includes/#cvs.rfl.dev.example.com.15624
**** File: site/customer/includes/#cvs.rfl.dev.example.com.15741
**** File: site/customer/includes/#cvs.rfl.dev.example.com.15743
**** File: site/customer/includes/#cvs.rfl.dev.example.com.15748
**** File: CVSROOT/modules-2004-12-22
**** File: CVSROOT/passwd~
Total Files: 5689  Corrupted files: 1  Invalid revs: 0  Extra files: 8  Ignored 
Files: 15
Total Revisions: 19055  Interesting Revisions: 11903