[cvsnt] Re: problem after server upgrade - "tag '' must start with a letter"

[Gerhard Fiedler]

One last try before I conclude that I have to remove these files from the
repository...

>From reading the RCS file documentation, it seems to me that this part
defines the tags on the file:

------------------------------
symbols
	bOVERDRIVE:1.1.0.2
	l031029:1.1;
------------------------------

The definition of tags seems to be given with

  symbols {sym : num}*;

When I parse the above part manually, I don't see how cvsnt would see an
empty tag here (as indicated by the error message). An empty tag could be
the result of whitespace followed by a colon followed by a revision number,
but there doesn't seem to be anything like this here. Also both tags look
legit to me (and to cvsnt 2.0.34 :).

Anybody any clue what could be wrong with this file? Or what I could try to
fix it? Or maybe someone can try to reproduce the problem with the file
below?

Thanks,
Gerhard


> Hello,
> 
> as some might remember from the flood of messages, I upgraded my server
> yesterday from 2.0.34 to 2.5.03 and am working through the issues :)
> 
> Now it's a few files that give me the error message:
> 
>   cvs up .cvsignore
>   cvs [server aborted]: tag '' must start with a letter
> 
> Or
> 
>   cvs edit .cvsignore
>   cvs [server aborted]: tag '' must start with a letter
>   cvs [edit aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if
> any)
> 
> I'm not familiar at all with the format of repository files, and I can't
> run any cvs command on these files to help me diagnose what's wrong; all
> return the same error message. So I'm a bit lost here. (FWIW, these files
> did get processed just fine by 2.0.34.)
> 
> Since it seems to be related to tags and tags seem to be stored in the RCS
> files (the repository files with names ending in ",v"), I appended below
> the contents of such a problem file. It seems to me that the tags are fine;
> the second one starts with a lower case "L", not with a number "one".
> Besides, it wouldn't explain why the error message refers to an empty tag.
> 
> Can anybody tell me what I can do to get rid of this error message (short
> of removing the files from the repository and re-adding the last revision
> from the sandbox)?
> 
> Thanks,
> Gerhard
 
--- start of file -----------------------------------------
head	1.2;
access;
symbols
	bOVERDRIVE:1.1.0.2
	l031029:1.1;
locks; strict;
comment	@# @;


1.2
date	2005.03.07.14.50.46;	author gfiedler;	state Exp;
branches;
next	1.1;
deltatype	text;
permissions	666;
commitid	76c422c6a440000;
kopt	kv;
filename	@.cvsignore@;

1.1
date	2003.10.22.22.16.49;	author gfiedler;	state Exp;
branches;
next	;
deltatype	text;


desc
@@


1.2
log
@*** empty log message ***
@
text
@*.$$$
*.bak
*.~??

*.cod
*.COD
*.err
*.hex
*.HEX
*.lst
@


1.1
log
@no message
@
text
@d6 1
d9 1
@

--- end of file -----------------------------------------