On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 02:04:43AM -0700, Veronica Lee wrote:
> 1) After we moved the repository over, some files are missing. At a
> closer look, these files were not missing. Instead, these files were
> changed from, e.g. CommunicationsManager.java,v to
> CommunicationsManager.java,v0100444. This made these files invisible
> to CVS. I moved the repository over by taring the entire repository
> and ftped it over to the new box. There are about 100+ files in this
> repository but only 6 of them were impacted across 5 different
> directories.
>
> What do you think caused this? Is this an existing bug?
Yes -- in your "tar". I have a particular tar file (a software distribution)
that does this when I unpack it with Solaris tar (from Solaris 2.6).
When I unpack the same file with GNU tar, it instead lops off the last character
of the filename. Eg.: Solaris tar gives me:
jrun/jsm-default/services/jws/htdocs/jsp/apidocs/com.livesoftware.jrun.plugins.ssi.ITagableData.html0100644
GNU tar gives me:
jrun/jsm-default/services/jws/htdocs/jsp/apidocs/com.livesoftware.jrun.plugins.ssi.ITagableData.htm
This only happens with pathnames exactly 100 characters long, as
stored in the tar file. Looks like a boundary condition that
both tar's get wrong in different ways. (Or else it's the tar that
*wrote* the file that got it wrong...)
> 2) Very recently a bigger catastrophe occurred. The entire CVSROOT
> folder was gone, which made the entire repository inaccessible.
> Moreover, 10+ files were missing.
I can't offer much here except to say that this is not something
I've *ever* seen CVS do!
Actually, there's another bug in GNU tar 1.12 (fixed in 1.13),
that is exercised by the same tar file as mentioned above. I
doubt it's responsible for your problem (especially regarding
CVSROOT), but I'll describe it just in case.
GNU tar 1.12 also screws up extracting pathnames strictly greater
than 100 characters long: it loses the directory portion, and
puts the file in the directory from which it was run. Eg. the
file which should be extracted to:
jrun/jsm-default/services/jws/htdocs/jsp/apidocs/com.livesoftware.jrun.plugins.jsp.JSPAbortException.html
instead gets put in:
./com.livesoftware.jrun.plugins.jsp.JSPAbortException.html
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