Re: Checksum failure: serious problem or not?

[Ed Avis]

address@hidden (Larry Jones) writes:

>I strongly disagree about the checksum failure message.  It indicates
>a serious confusion about the state of the working file that the user
>*must* investigate.  It indicates that there were local changes to
>the file that CVS doesn't know about and is in the process of
>discarding.

If that's really true, the right thing must be to change CVS so it
doesn't do that without prompting and/or saving a backup copy of the
file.

(I thought that checksum failure messages indicated a bug in the patch
algorithm.  I suppose they could be either that or strange changes to
the local file that CVS didn't notice.)

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Ed Avis <address@hidden>