Re: Two head revisions?

[Todd Denniston]

Derek R. Price wrote:
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> Todd Denniston wrote:
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> > If it IS an NFS netapp, then one sub question to ask is CAN any
> > other machines besides the main CVS machine mount that directory
> > structure? Granted from what I recall of the NFS mungings of the
> > past, having it survive in as good a shape as you have seems
> > strange.
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> Turns out the repo is on a SAN, but only the CVS server has that
> particular directory mounted read-write and I'm assured that SAN
> storage looks much more like a local disk to the OS than NFS and that
> I should trust it.  Has anyone had any problems with repos on SANs?
>
> I also got a copy of the archive prior to the second 1.4 commit.  Sure
> enough, it had a header with "head: 1.3", no 1.4 metadata, but had a
> 1.4 change text.  All 3.5 original revisions were created on the same
> day, so I can't pull anything older from storage.  :(
>
> Checking out revision 1.2 in the raw retrieved archive produced an
> error, but I reconstructed and repeated the four commits without
> reproducing the corruption, which didn't surprise me.
>
> Attempting to commit a second 1.4 revision to the retrieved archive
> with CVS does produce the corrupted file I originally received, with
> two 1.4 change texts, but now I need to explain the original
> corruption.  Has anyone seen anything like the corruption in the
> retrieved archive?

Backup just a second here...
Are you telling us you have a way to get CVS to create the corruption?
Got a script to do it? Mind sharing?

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Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter