[cvsnt] missing expected branches, but the branches exists. less URGENT.

[Tony Hoyle]

On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 16:11:27 +0200, irodriguez perez
<irodriguezp at cirsa.com> wrote:

>For more information if i try a checkout without /force/rev/branch
>option the server says this about the corrupted files:
>
>cvs server: nothing known about ###_DIR_###/file1.psl
>
You shouldn't ever see that (it's an internal marker).  It's only set
if you try to checkout/export to an absolute path. It was forbidden in
the old CVS because of the way the protocol works & I tried to work
around it, which seems to be OK for most purposes.

It's entirely possible that a mistake with admin -o could do nasty
things to your repository...  I'd reserve its use to absolute
emergencies (eg. must be deleted for legal reasons) as it has no
history and doesn't interoperate with the rest of CVS.  That's why
it's for admins only and there's a big warning on the help.   I'm not
at all sure that's what's happened here, though (cvs history should
give you some hints).

Tony