[GRASS5] WARNING: CVS broken

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 02:10:51PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 01:01:58PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> > It isn't.

> > An example:
> > 
> > On 2001/04/29, I replaced d.rgb with a version which used RGB raster
> > operations (D_draw_raster_RGB), comprising:
> > 
> > 	src/display/d.rgb/Gmakefile
> > 	src/display/d.rgb/main.c
> > 
> > These files are still there, and src/display/d.rgb/CVS/Tag contains:
> > 
> > 	Treleasebranch_11_april_2001_5_0_0
> > 
> > However, the most recent update adds the old version of d.rgb in
> > src/display/d.rgb/cmd, with src/display/d.rgb/cmd/CVS/Tag containing:
> > 
> > 	Nreleasebranch_11_april_2001_5_0_0
> > 
> > Note: "T" indicates a branch tag, "N" indicates a non-branch tag.
> > 
> > AFAICT, any other files which had been removed from the release branch
> > have re-appeared in the latest version.
> > 
> > I haven't seen any cases where existing files have been replaced by
> > the wrong version, but the presence of additional files could still
> > interfere with the build process, e.g. adding subdirectories to any
> > directory whose Gmakefile uses $(MAKEALL), or adding header files
> > which conflict with header files occurring later in the include path.
> > 
> > As I mentioned earlier, use of -D allowed me to get a pre-snafu
> > version of the source tree, but there isn't much point in committing
> > anything while the problem remains.
> 
> In this case I vote for an immediate write-lock of CVS.
> Too bad!!

We have to analyse the problem then first.
I do not have time immedealty, so we every developer should 
stop commiting unless the problem is clear
and we know how to procede.

There is no easy method to stop people from committing,
witout disabling cvs-ssh access completly.

Glynn: Can you start investigating what was going on?

	Bernhard

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