[cvsnt] Re: Branch tags incorrect

[Robin]

This happened before we restarted the server but definitely looked like 
a bug. I still have one 'branch' with erronous tags which make checking 
that project out come out with missing files.

user at domain.invalid wrote:
> I created a branch on a 20 file sized project,
> and most of the entries were tagged to revision addresses
> that appeared to have random characters at the start
> of the revision address.
> 
> We have since restored the CVS repository files and have not seen this 
> behaviour again (well for a day or two). But it definitely looked like a 
> 'lost' C pointer
> putting, instead of stuff like "1.2.2" in was putting stuff in like 
> "1.h" or "UÄ.1".