[geeks] Bad CVS issue

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Mon Nov 17 17:32:24 CST 2008


On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Joshua Boyd wrote:

> I never figured out how to fix this without the restore from backup, so I bit 
> the bullet and restored from backup, then restored the latest versions from 
> my local repository.

The last time I ran into something like that, I restored from backup and
migrated to Subversion.  svn has its own forms of brokenness, but they can
usually be worked around through brute force, and they're rarely as
permanent as CVS's many ways of breaking things.

-- 
Jonathan Patschke < "There is great satisfaction in building good tools
Elgin, TX          > for other people to use."
USA               <                                     --Freeman Dyson



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