CVS anomaly

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Thursday 20 July 2006 11:40 am, nmeyers at javalinux.net wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 10:59:24AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > I've got a file that somehow a revision got checked in as 1.1.1.2
> > Most of the other files that have been modified are revision 1.2 or
> > higher (as expected). I've got 2 log files below, BuiltinType.H and
> > BasicType.H (which is 1.2 as expected). I've tried to force
> > BuiltinType.H to revision 1.2 by outdating it, and reapplying the
> > changes. In the 2 cases below, the revisions were initially checked in
> > on the same day using cvs commit -m"log message" <filename>
> > Any ideas on this (and I can't switch to subversion as this is not my
> > system).
>
> Was this repository created by importing a project? I would guess
> someone did a "cvs import <repository> TOPDIR Version_1".
I don't recall exactly how I did it, but sources did not come directly from 
a repository. We simply has a tarball with the sources. 
> I've always been mystified by the workings of CVS on imported projects -
> they seem to behave as if the imported branch is the trunk.

> Nathan
>
> > Working file: BuiltinType.H
> > head: 1.1
> > branch:
> > locks: strict
> > symbolic names:
> >         Version_1: 1.1.1.1
> >         TOPDIR: 1.1.1
> > keyword substitution: kv
> > total revisions: 3;     selected revisions: 3
> > description:
> > ----------------------------
> > revision 1.1
> > date: 2005/05/31 15:02:49;  author: gfeldman;  state: Exp;
> > branches:  1.1.1;
> > Initial revision
> > ----------------------------
> > revision 1.1.1.2
> > date: 2006/07/20 13:47:05;  author: gfeldman;  state: Exp;  lines: +121
> > -1 Added 64-bit classes
> > ----------------------------
> > revision 1.1.1.1
> > date: 2005/05/31 15:02:49;  author: gfeldman;  state: Exp;  lines: +0
> > -0 Initial checkin of Intel XXXXX
> > =======================================================================
> >======
> >
> > Working file: BasicType.H
> > head: 1.2
> > branch:
> > locks: strict
> > symbolic names:
> >         Version_1: 1.1.1.1
> >         TOPDIR: 1.1.1
> > keyword substitution: kv
> > total revisions: 3;     selected revisions: 3
> > description:
> > ----------------------------
> > revision 1.2
> > date: 2006/06/14 21:29:04;  author: gfeldman;  state: Exp;  lines: +6
> > -2 added bsizeof_INT64
> > ----------------------------
> > revision 1.1
> > date: 2005/05/31 15:02:49;  author: gfeldman;  state: Exp;
> > branches:  1.1.1;
> > Initial revision
> > ----------------------------
> > revision 1.1.1.1
> > date: 2005/05/31 15:02:49;  author: gfeldman;  state: Exp;  lines: +0
> > -0 Initial checkin of Intel XXXXX
> > =======================================================================
> >======
> >
> > --
> > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> > Boston Linux and Unix user group
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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