"Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file"

[Matthias Andree]

Am 31.12.2009, 16:45 Uhr, schrieb Dimitry Andric <dimitry at andric.com>:

> On 2009-12-31 04:32, Victor Sudakov wrote:
>> I cvsup the FreeBSD CVS repository daily from cvsup.ru.freebsd.org.
>> Both the client and the server run CVSup Software version: SNAP_16_1h,
>> Protocol version: 17.0.
>>
>> Recently I noticed that there are lots of messages
>> "Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file" about all kinds of
>> downloaded files, e.g.
>>
>>
>> src/lib/libc/posix1e/acl_delete_entry.c,v: Checksum mismatch -- will  
>> transfer entire file
>
> I also see a bunch of these, almost every time I do a csup.  Looking
> back in my logs, I see that it goes back until at least 2009-07-05...

I suspect (without any proof) that this is only for src, because that is  
converted from a live SVN repository to CVS for the sake of CVSup  
distribution, while all other repositories are still CVS natively.

-- 
Matthias Andree