[cvsnt] Jar files becoming corrupt

[Glen Starrett]

Bo Berglund wrote:
> It should be in the archive....
> During development of 2.5 there was a problem discovered by a user
> that had eluded most others. I don't now remember the exact details,
> but something on these lines:
> 1. Create a branch
> 2. Add a binary file on the branch
> 3. Commit changes to that file
> 4. Maybe also delete an intermediate revision, but I am not sure.

I don't recall a branch being required, but you might be right.  I think 
the problem was around having multiple versions and the non-HEAD 
versions getting corrupted by a bad diff algorithm or something like 
that.  A branch (created at a non-HEAD location) would certainly show 
that problem, if this is in fact the problem.

Regards,



-- 
Glen Starrett