Re: CVS server (va.debian.org) is sending back crap!

[Sam Vilain <sam hydro gen nz>]

sopwith@redhat.com (Elliot Lee) writes:

> >Watch for changes in this file.  If the entries for any of the modules
> >you are interested in changes, then the safest thing to do is to
> >delete them altogether and re-check them out.
> You don't have to delete them - just check out on top of the current copy.
> When used in this fashion, checkout is a "smarter" (if less bandwidth
> efficient) version of "update".

I've seen cvs complain with "file x is in the way; move it out first"
when I do this on occasion.  I haven't quite established exactly how
it gets into this state, and it appeared to be happening for him -
hence my comment.
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