"Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file"

[Victor Sudakov]

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. 

My mirror was created from scratch by cvsup. What artifacts are you
talking about?

> 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.

I am afraid you are mistaken. I have never switched between cvsup and
csup. I have even recreated a mirror from scratch, and the "Checksum
mismatch" error appears at the next run of cvsup.

> 
> 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.  :)

Except for the fact that the -L0 switch has become completely useless.
All the "Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file" are L0
messages, i.e. they ARE error messages.

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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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