[parisc-linux] cvs-snapshot problem discovered

Matthew Wilcox willy@debian.org
Sun, 28 Sep 2003 04:38:48 +0100


OK, think I have it figured out.  I experimented on
arch/parisc/vmlinux.lds.S since I know both we & Linus removed it.
The version in the linux-2.6.0-test6/_cvs-snapshot-linux-2.6/linux-2.6
tree was cvs revision 1.3 which was the same one tagged with the `linus'
symbolic tag.  Version 1.4 was where we deleted it, but the linus tag
never got moved (presumably because cvs tag -F won't move a tag to a
deleted revision).  So cvs up -rlinus still gets deleted files.

How to fix this?  I'm not at all sure.  I think there's an interesting
question about whether a deleted file should have no linus tag or a
linus tag on the deleted revision.

I'm going to go ahead and merge the 2.6.0-test6 upstream into the trunk
since there's nothing wrong with what's checked in (as long as I don't
try to use the `linus' tag for anything).

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