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Date:      Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:03:00 -0600
From:      Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>, Victor Sudakov <sudakov+freebsd@sibptus.tomsk.ru>
Subject:   Re: "Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file"
Message-ID:  <4B40CDC4.40706@missouri.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4B40BADC.6060407@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20091231033244.GA5631@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>	<4B3CC72F.9030904@andric.com>	<op.u5xkb1r91e62zd@merlin.emma.line.org><4B408745.3030309@andric.com> <4B40BADC.6060407@FreeBSD.org>

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Doug Barton wrote:
> I was not going to reply on this thread at all, but the amount of
> random speculation has now reached a pathological level.
> 
> The spurious new line at the end of a file has nothing to do with svn,
> it is an artifact of how the file was originally transferred to the
> cvsup mirror. The checksum mismatch will be triggered a few different
> ways, the most common is to switch between cvsup and csup, and/or
> switching mirrors for the same checked out tree.
> 
> The message is harmless, it's not an error, and in fact you can take
> the message as a reassuring sign that the system is working exactly as
> designed.  :)
>

I tend to agree with Victor that there is something more going on.  I 
started getting these messages at about the same time as svn was introduced.



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