Re: CVS corruption/mistagging?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CVS corruption/mistagging?
Date: 2007-08-15 02:59:46
Message-ID: 21119.1187146786@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> On Tuesday, August 14, 2007 22:20:16 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
> wrote:
>> Meanwhile, is there anyone around who can either (1) tar up the
>> repository directory tree as root, or (2) confirm that a tarball
>> made by a non-root committer is sufficient?

> I've just finished tar'ng up the cvs repository as root ...

Great --- launching cvs rtag command now.

> I believe one as a
> non-root would be sufficient also, since it *should* retain file ownership /
> permissions with the -p option ...

That's what I thought too, but a little extra paranoia doesn't hurt.

regards, tom lane

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