Subject: Re: CVS problems
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/05/2003 11:16:50
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:01:07AM -0800, John Clark wrote:
> I have had a lot of problems using cvs and the anoncvs.netbsd.org cvs
> server.
> While most other packages that I get via cvs seem to transfer
> correctly, often
> the netbsd cvs transfer ends with a series of what appears to be source
> lines
> being chewed up by the cvs check out function as if they were cvs
> commands.
This is a symptom of a bug introduced in a recent version of CVS. If
you have exactly the same versions of CVS on client and server, you
should not see it. Also, disabling compression at the CVS layer seems
to help.
Thor