[cvsnt] Re: Bug in cvs admin -o?

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Wed Jun 9 13:09:02 BST 2004


On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 11:07:13 -0300, "Daniel Lapolla"
<ldlapolla at yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>When I delete a revision that is referenced as a mergepoint by other
>revision(s), the mergepoint information in the referencing revisions is not
>removed. This can cause a big mess because a new revision will eventually
>take it's place, but the ancestry information will be incorrect.
>
>Is this behavior correct? How can I workaround that?
>
Don't delete a revision that's referenced as a mergepoint.  Really it
should be specifically prevented.

It's a similar problem to deleting a branchpoint - it causes the data
to be inconsistent.

Tony




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