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Re: cvs update: checksum failure after patch
From: |
Peter Toft |
Subject: |
Re: cvs update: checksum failure after patch |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:11:17 +0200 (CEST) |
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Larry Jones wrote:
> Peter Toft writes:
> >
> > I have a nasty problem now with a CVS repository, where I can update after
> > some other user has committed - now I get this:
> > cvs update: checksum failure after patch to <myfile>; will refetch
> >
> > Is it bad? How bad? How to rework around it?
>
> It's a little bit worrisome, but not too bad. Normally, what that means
> is that your local file had been changed without changing the timestamp,
> so CVS didn't know that it had been changed. Since CVS didn't know the
...
I did google after a good explanation without any success, however Larrys
answer is VERY good - excellent!!!
Peter Toft, Ph.D. address@hidden http://pto.linux.dk
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you
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