Re: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] cscvs totla.TlaError: "tla undo" failed with exit status 512

[micah milano]

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:53:43 +1000, Robert Collins <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 14:31, micah milano wrote:
> > I was attempting to bring in an archive with:
> >
> > cscvs totla -S MAIN.1:2174 /home/manderson/cvs/sympa/tla
> >
> > and it had been chugging along nicely, only a few hundred revisions
> > left, when it threw this exception:
> >
> > Warning: not overwriting existing log file
> > N changeset 2067
> > R wwsympa/tt2/translate.tt2 [1.4]
> > attempt to remove non-existent id for wwsympa/tt2/translate.tt2
> 
> This means that the cvs repository was parsed wrongly, leading to this
> attempt to delete a file that hasn't been placed on disk.
> 
> Your entire conversion is suspect - sorry.

Oh, bummer :o

> There are several possible causes for this. One is incorrect handling of
> dead revisions, another is gaps in the revision numbers. I don't see
> this anymore in my development code, but that isn't released [yet].

Hmm, I think I was using your experimental code, after my recent
failures with the debian version:

      cscvs--experimental
         cscvs--experimental--1.0
             base-0 .. patch-43


> So, I can't offer you a simple bugfix, but if you have a little patience
> I will be able to offer a cscvs that will do the right thing.

Thats ok, but maybe you have another way I can go about bringing in
this archive. I am not really interested in all the prior versions, I
just want the latest cvs revision, and then I want to use cscvs to
track its updates in the future. I had tried to just bring in the last
changeset by doing:

cscvs totla -S MAIN.2174 /home/manderson/cvs/sympa/tla

but this left me with only the files from changeset 2174, not the
entire archive.

If there was a way where I didn't have to step through every change
from 2001 to get to the latest, that might solve my problem.

Thanks for your help!
micah