Title: Strange message from CVS...
Lately when I use a version on the cvs command line, the following message shows up;
$ cvs update -r maint42
cvs server: duplicate key found for `y'
$
Does anyone know what this is and why I get it?
Any help would be great.
-Hamid Ghassemi
Hi Hamid,
> From: Hamid Ghassemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 16:53:11 -0700
>
> Lately when I use a version on the cvs command line, the following message shows up;
>
> $ cvs update -r maint42
> cvs server: duplicate key found for `y'
> $
>
> Does anyone know what this is and
Hamid Ghassemi writes:
>
> $ cvs update -r maint42
> cvs server: duplicate key found for `y'
Your CVSROOT/val-tags file has become corrupted. Each line in that file
should contain a valid tag name followed by a space and the letter "y".
If you check your file, you will find at least two lines
Note that if you work with *big* CVS trees, deleting the val-tags file
can make checkouts based on tags (including branch tags) take a long
time. (By big I mean hundreds of directories, thousands of files.)
We've found that adding new tags to val-tags before running checkouts
or merges using them
