Re: cvs dumps Root, Repository, Entries

[Eric Siegerman]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 11:55:38AM -0500, William A. Gatliff wrote:
> Every now and then (ok, almost
> all the time now), when I do an update, tag or commit from the
> top-level directory, CVS empties out the contents of my
> include/config/CVS files.  Then the session stops with an error.
> 
> I'm connecting to a remote repository using CVS_RSH=ssh.  I never see
> these problems when working on the machine that actually hosts the
> repository, I only have troubles when connecting remotely.

Wild guess:  Maybe CVS thinks that those particular files are
CVS-managed.  It might be a problem with the sandbox on the
remote machine, not with client/server operation per se.  Try:
  - checking whether include/config/CVS has its own CVS
    subdirectory, i.e. whether there's a directory
    include/config/CVS/CVS [sic], whose Entries file contains
    entries for Root, Repository, and Entries

  - checking out a fresh sandbox -- still client/server, on the
    same remote machine -- and seeing whether the new sandbox has
    the problem too

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