"Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file"

[Victor Sudakov]

Jonathan Noack wrote:
> >> But to hell with this. I started the topic because I think something
> >> is wrong with SVN to CVS export, which upsets cvsup and causes
> >> "Checksum mismatch" errors.  Is anybody willing to look at it?
> >
> > I see nobody is ever going to fix this? Cvsup mails me a bunch of
> > "Checksum mismatch" errors on every run, with a risk of overlooking
> > real errors.
> >
> > How do others deal with this noise? Do you grep cvsup output or what?
> 
> Seems like newer versions of CVS break assumptions made by CVSup on the
> ordering of branch revisions:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hubs/2009-August/002083.html
> 
> "So, in short I don't see any easy solutions to this, and especially given
> the fact that in the long run CVS/CVSup will probably be replaced by
> something else for distributing FreeBSD source, I don't think it will be
> that easy to find someone to "fix" either CVSup or CVS."

Thanks for the link. Somebody wrote here that the problem was perhaps
in the svn2cvs script, but Simon's post gives a different outlook.

Maybe nobody is going to fix CVSup (is it not actively developed
already?), but csup is relatively recent and alive. Once it has a CVS
mode, maybe it could be adjusted?

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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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