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Date:      Thu, 3 Oct 1996 14:30:06 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar)
Subject:   Re: Possibly smoked my cvs tree :-(
Message-ID:  <199610031230.OAA26337@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961003001442.258A-100000@chain.iafrica.com> from Khetan Gajjar at "Oct 3, 96 00:17:44 am"

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As Khetan Gajjar wrote:

> [chain] /usr/home/ncvs# ctm ../ctm/cvs-cur.2522.gz 
>   DM: ports/mail/mailagent exists.
>   DM: ports/mail/mailagent/files exists.
>   DM: ports/mail/mailagent/patches exists.
>   DM: ports/mail/mailagent/pkg exists.
>   DM: ports/mail/mailagent/scripts exists.
>   FN: CVSROOT/commitlogs/CVSROOT md5 mismatch.
>   FN: CVSROOT/commitlogs/CVSROOT edit fails.
> Exit(120)
> [chain] /usr/home/ncvs# 
> 
> I think I might have smoked the tree :-( Now, I'm a dial up user, so I
> don't want to re-download the whole tree again. Is there any way for me to
> take the tree back to say, cvs-cur.2450 and apply all the deltas since
> then ?

Apart from CVSup, what i'm doing in this case is: remove the entire
CVS tree, extract it from my last backup tape, and re-apply the CTM
deltas.  Takes an hour perhaps, but doesn't cost me any online money.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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