Re: [Savannah-help-public] CVS repository trouble

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 10:49:37AM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Sylvain,
> 
> On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 20:01 +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > If you check your repository with rsync you'll see there is such a file:
> > $ rsync 
> > cvs.savannah.gnu.org::sources/classpath/classpath/tools/gnu/classpath/tools/giop/NamingServicePersistent.txt,v
> > -r--r--r--          93 2006/02/14 16:15:42 NamingServicePersistent.txt,v
> > 
> > Localy:
> > -r--r--r--  1 audriusa   classpath   93 Feb 14 10:15 
> > NamingServicePersistent.txt,v
> > 
> > Here is its contents:
> > =====
> > head     ;
> > access   ;
> > symbols  ;
> > locks    ; strict;
> > comment  @# @;
> > expand   @k@;
> > 
> > 
> > desc
> > @@
> > 
> > 
> > =====
> > 
> > Do you have any idea where that comes from?
> > 
> > I don't remember of any CVS downtime during Valentine's day :/
> 
> That looks like a corrupted ,v file. Maybe it was an aborted commit? It
> might have been added first under the wrong name and then correctly
> checked in with the new name. But how the file with the wrong name can
> be corrupted inside our repository is strange. Audrius, do you remember?
> 
> This file clearly should NOT be in our cvs-repository, it is not and
> never has been used. Is there any possibility of just removing that
> file?

I removed the file - but I'm still interested in finding out what
happened that day :)

-- 
Sylvain