"Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file"
Stephen Montgomery-Smith
stephen at missouri.edu
Sun Jan 3 17:03:05 UTC 2010
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. 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.
>
> 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. :)
>
I tend to agree with Victor that there is something more going on. I
started getting these messages at about the same time as svn was introduced.
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