"Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file"

[Victor Sudakov]

Peter Jeremy wrote:
> >I also see that many "changes" in the CVS seem to be useless: there
> >are no changes other than file version increments.
> 
> SVN metadata changes will appear in CVS as version changes only.  The
> most obvious/common case is branching - branching a native CVS repo
> just adds the branch tags.  Branching a SVN repo replicates the tree
> and the SVN->CVS exporter turns the branch into a commit that touches
> each affected file.

Thank you for the insight into theory, however the practical results
are annoying. For example, running mergemaster has become a nightmare.
It considers every file to be changed (unless you do some black magic
with DIFF_OPTIONS to ignore \$FreeBSD:.*\$). 

BTW what does cvsup (in CVS mode) do with an RCS file to which only a
branch tag has been added? How does it mirror such a change? Just
curious.


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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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