[Savannah-hackers] Re: CVS on savannah

[Andrew Walrond]

On Monday 05 Jan 2004 10:31 am, Andrew Haley wrote:
>
> It isn't possible to do this consistently, because CVS commits are not
> atomic.  It is always possible for a developer to check out an
> inconsistent repository.
>

So a cvs checkout from the master repository can result in an inconsistent 
local copy? I didn't know that.
That problem is obviously double-compounded by checkins to the master during 
rsync of mirror and checkouts from the mirror during rsync from master.

I hope nobody mirrors a mirror......

Andrew Walrond