Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] CVS update problems

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 23:17:56 -0800
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 12:56:07AM -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> $ cvs up
> cvs [server aborted]: illegal special character in RCS field in /cvsroot/ethereal/ncp2222.py,v
> 
> $ cat CVS/Root
> :pserver:anoncvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot

I had a problem doing an anonymous CVS update yesterday; the problem was
with a file that had been updated recently, as yours probably also is.

The problem eventually went away; I think the anonymous CVS tree - which
is separate from the regular CVS tree, and which I think is updated by a
cron job, by copying from the regular CVS tree - may have caught the CVS
tree in the middle of an update.

Try again in an hour or so after your last try; the cron job may copy a
completely-updated version of the file over.