python crash - Freedesktop CVS - directory - xorg: xc/programs/Xserver/hw

[Daniel Stone]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 11:56:02AM -0500, Kristian H?gsberg wrote:
> From what I could google about this, setting the RCS default branch of 
> a file in CVS is away of reverting to the vendor branch.  The problem is 
> that the 1.1.1 branch that has been set as default does not exist in the 
> file, and this is clearly an error.  It causes "rlog -r Mach32.c,v" to 
> exit with failure, and since this is what ViewCVS uses that is why it is 
> broken atm.  My guess is that someone did "cvs admin -b1.1.1" at some 
> point, though I'm not sure why, and the weird thing is that only some of 
> the files in the repository has a default branch set, see
> 
>   http://freedesktop.org/~krh/files-missing-1.1.1.txt
> 
> It's fairly easy to revert this, you can just clear the RCS default 
> branch by saying:
> 
>   rcs -b Mach32.c,v
> 
> for the files listed above and ViewCVS will work again.  I can't see how 
> this could cause problems given that the current setting is in error, 
> but I just wanted to check with the list before clearing the default 
> branch settings.

Thanks a lot.  I cleared this with someone who knows entirely too much
about CVS internals and cleared the default branch for all files that
had a default branch that didn't exist.

Cheers!
:) d

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Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
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