[Gllug] Sourceforge CVS

[Rich Walker]

Nix <nix at esperi.demon.co.uk> writes:

> On 07 Jul 2003, Rich Walker spake:
> > Nix <nix at esperi.demon.co.uk> writes:
[snip]
> >> 2) on the backup CVS box, so one day behind.
> > 
> > Well, that's not necessarily a grave problem for The Rest Of Us.
> 
> It's a bit annoying if you're trying to track a project closely yet
> aren't a developer. (One could become one, I guess, and this problem has
> prodded me into becoming one on a couple of such projects, but even so.)

Well, I've not found any problem with a 1-day delay on anything I care
about. Then again, that's only slashem to date....

> >> Plus it's deeply irritating.
> > 
> > This I don't understand. Elucidation, please?
> 
> The notification of this problem was, well, appalling. I only learnt
> what the EOFs signified and that they were intentional in May, by which
> point I'd already had to waste a good bit of time rejigging CVS-updating
> scripts to handle CVS servers that randomly EOF.

Got you.

> (No, checking the exit code isn't good enough; CVS returns non-0 under a
> good number of circumstances which can't be fixed by sleep-and-retry...)

Oh - lovely. 

cheers, Rich

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