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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Another cvs question
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-02-28 23:30:29
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 11:27:55PM +0000, Nicolas Brodu wrote:
> David Faure wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 11:04:07PM +0000, Nicolas Brodu wrote:
> > > cvs add smb.cc gives me this message:
> > >
> > > cvs server: smb.cc added independently by second party
> > >
> > > And I cannot add it. I tried to check out a clean version, but
> > > this doesn't help either.
> > 
> > Hmmm.... Can you remove it (with -f) ?
> 
> Nop, it gives me:
> cvs server: nothing known about `smb.cc'
> 
> Found it!!!
> In fact, the file was deleted but another file with the same 
> name was present. Though checkout didn't work, an update in
> the current directory brought the file back from wherever 
> lower plane it was hanging in. Then just overwrite it and 
> commit.

Yup, this happens when somebody makes a change to a deleted file
without updating first. CVS lets you modify a dead file...

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