Re: pathological cvs recursion ?

[gary%duzan.org@localhost]

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=> bch <brad.harder%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
=>
=>> I've run into this a few times:
=>>
=>> U
=>>
external/bsd/libc++/dist/libcxx/test/libcxx/experimental/containers/sequences/src/external/gpl3/binutils/dist/opcodes/aarch64-tbl.h
=>>
=>> where there are sub-trees seem to be recursively re-added (see
=>> .../src/external/gpl3... as part of ./src/external/bsd/...).
=>
=> I would unmount the fs and run fsck.   I have seen some strange things
=> which were due to filesystem damage.
=>
=> Then, I'd remove the subtree and update again.

   I've seen this quite a bit on the Xen DOMU that I use for building
NetBSD. So often that I ended up umount/newfs/mount/checkout my src LV
instead of just updating. Every once in a while I try an update;
sometimes it is fine, but other times not. I also just saw it in a
pkgsrc tree I updated on another box recently. After an rm -rf on the
broken tree a subsequent update succeeded, but I expect it could happen
again. In case it matters, I'm using an rsync repo clone and accessing
it over ssh.

                                      Gary Duzan