Re: Disappearing Root files

[Todd Denniston]

Mark E. Hamilton wrote, On 11/26/2007 12:02 PM:
> I've got a strange problem occurring. On one of our machines in the 
> directory where we do our nightly checkout/build/test process, some (but 
> not all) of the CVS/Root files are disappearing. I have no reason at 
> this time to think that CVS is doing this (unless someone here has seen 
> this themselves.) I'm going to have to search through our code to see if 
> we're doing this somehow, somewhere.

You would not happen to be doing your "nightly checkout/build/test process" 
under /tmp/ would you?

I have seen similar problems with folks who tried to work under tmp for a 
while. The tmp cleaner would come along and see the file had not been changed 
for ~1 week and remove it, slowly deleting everything. :)

CVS/Root is one of those files that usually does not change after checkout.

If you are not working in /tmp, you might ask (with a big stick in hand as 
needed) the machine admin if (s)he has a helper running against that directory 
structure to get rid of files that have not been "used||changed" for a while.

> However, when I discovered this I thought checkout or update would put 
> the Root files back again. I tried both
>
> cvs -d repos checkout dir
> cd dir && cvs -d repos update -dP
>
> Both worked, but neither restored the missing Root files. Should they 
> have, or is this something that has never come up before?

IIRC CVS only requires the CVS/Root file in the directory where it first 
starts working.

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Todd Denniston
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