[cvsnt] Re: build 2040 tag problem

[Robin]

Is this where the sticky tag appears to be connected to revisions where 
the first few characters of the revisions are corrupted ?

Tony Hoyle wrote:
> Oliver Giesen wrote:
> 
>> It's a bit distracting though that the complaining only happens after
>> the fact, i.e. when you attempt to run a command on a thus updated
>> directory. The malign update that results in the sticky numeric
>> directory tag itself goes through without complaint. And there's no way
>> to undo this without hacking the sandbox metadata as not even a cvs up
>> -A would be accepted anymore at that point.
> 
> 
> I just put in some code for check for that & abort a lot earlier.
> 
> Tony