[cvsnt] HEAD not always pointing to latest version

Richard Wirth richard at wirthware.de
Thu Sep 8 16:32:52 BST 2005


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Hello Tobias,

Thursday, September 8, 2005, 2:38:01 PM, you wrote:

TR> Hello,

TR> in the last days we quite often encounter the problem that the HEAD
TR> version of the file and the version that was checked in last is not
TR> the same. I.e. each of the following
TR>  - cvs update -A
TR>  - cvs update -r HEAD
TR>  - just cvs update on a checked out copy without sticky tag
TR> does not deliver the latest version of the file but the version before
TR> that, even when the local copy of the file was identical to the latest
TR> version before hand.

TR> Example (the most extreme case):

TR> 1) I have a copy of version 1.26 (which is the latest version) in my
TR> working directory.
TR> 2) I modify the file.
TR> 3) I commit the file.
TR> 4) I do "cvs update"
TR> 5) My file is reverted to version 1.26, although "cvs log" shows me
TR> that my commit was successfull and version 1.27 exists.

TR> I can get version 1.27 with "cvs update -r 1.27" or, if i placed a tag
TR> "TAG" as step 4.5, by "cvs update -r TAG", but update to HEAD always
TR> reverts it to 1.26.

in rare cases I observed the same on my Solaris server with 2.0.58d.
Switching to a newer version solved the problem (2.5.01 Build 1990).

There are also some issues in enumerating the sandbox directory
structure when this version of client is used against a 2.5.01 Server.

So I had to upgrade the client side also.

-- 
Best regards,
 Richard                            mailto:richard at wirthware.de




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