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One last try before I conclude that I have to remove these files from the
repository...
>From reading the RCS file documentation, it seems to me that this part
defines the tags on the file:
------------------------------
symbols
bOVERDRIVE:1.1.0.2
l031029:1.1;
------------------------------
The definition of tags seems to be given with
symbols {sym : num}*;
When I parse the above part manually, I don't see how cvsnt would see an
empty tag here (as indicated by the error message). An empty tag could be
the result of whitespace followed by a colon followed by a revision number,
but there doesn't seem to be anything like this here. Also both tags look
legit to me (and to cvsnt 2.0.34 :).
Anybody any clue what could be wrong with this file? Or what I could try to
fix it? Or maybe someone can try to reproduce the problem with the file
below?
Thanks,
Gerhard
> Hello,
>
> as some might remember from the flood of messages, I upgraded my server
> yesterday from 2.0.34 to 2.5.03 and am working through the issues :)
>
> Now it's a few files that give me the error message:
>
> cvs up .cvsignore
> cvs [server aborted]: tag '' must start with a letter
>
> Or
>
> cvs edit .cvsignore
> cvs [server aborted]: tag '' must start with a letter
> cvs [edit aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if
> any)
>
> I'm not familiar at all with the format of repository files, and I can't
> run any cvs command on these files to help me diagnose what's wrong; all
> return the same error message. So I'm a bit lost here. (FWIW, these files
> did get processed just fine by 2.0.34.)
>
> Since it seems to be related to tags and tags seem to be stored in the RCS
> files (the repository files with names ending in ",v"), I appended below
> the contents of such a problem file. It seems to me that the tags are fine;
> the second one starts with a lower case "L", not with a number "one".
> Besides, it wouldn't explain why the error message refers to an empty tag.
>
> Can anybody tell me what I can do to get rid of this error message (short
> of removing the files from the repository and re-adding the last revision
> from the sandbox)?
>
> Thanks,
> Gerhard
--- start of file -----------------------------------------
head 1.2;
access;
symbols
bOVERDRIVE:1.1.0.2
l031029:1.1;
locks; strict;
comment @# @;
1.2
date 2005.03.07.14.50.46; author gfiedler; state Exp;
branches;
next 1.1;
deltatype text;
permissions 666;
commitid 76c422c6a440000;
kopt kv;
filename @.cvsignore@;
1.1
date 2003.10.22.22.16.49; author gfiedler; state Exp;
branches;
next ;
deltatype text;
desc
@@
1.2
log
@*** empty log message ***
@
text
@*.$$$
*.bak
*.~??
*.cod
*.COD
*.err
*.hex
*.HEX
*.lst
@
1.1
log
@no message
@
text
@d6 1
d9 1
@
--- end of file -----------------------------------------