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Re: Strange update behavior


From: Mark D. Baushke
Subject: Re: Strange update behavior
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:02:39 -0700

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Christian Schmolzi <address@hidden> writes:

> I have noticed a strange behavior that occured exactly two times in the 
> last few weeks. I tried to update my sandbox (Sun Solaris, CVS client 1.12) 
> from a branch to HEAD with "cvs -PAd". Strangely, one file, that was added 

I assume you mean 'cvs update -PAd' as the command?

> since that branch was not retrieved from the repository (CVS Server 1.12 on 
> Linux, pserver). Since the cvs server simply ignored that file, we did not 
> notice at first that the file was missing.
> 
> Several update tries with differnt options did not succeed. The only way to 
> get the file from the repository was by telling cvs explicitely which file 
> to update ("cvs update -P file.txt"). Another colleague of me reported this 
> behavoir happened with his windows client (WinCvs).
> 
> Does anybody know under which circumstances something like this can happen. 
> Since that I have not been able to reproduce this behavior but we are a 
> little concerned about the reliability of a cvs update before we deliver 
> our software to the customer.

What does a 'cvs status file.txt' tell you (before and after you do the
update)? Does another 'cvs update -PAd' cause file.txt to disappear?

You don't happen to have both a file.txt directory and a file.txt,v file
in your repository do you? (Although I would have expected you to have
run across a 'file.txt already exists but is not a directory' kind of error
message in that case).

        -- Mark
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