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

Fri Nov 25 21:35:43 GMT 2005

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 -----------------------------------------