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[Christian Reis <kiko@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is still happening here at https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~vcs-
imports/po4a/head -- I've gone ahead and created a new import at
https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~kiko/po4a/trunk-new to figure out if
it's broken even for a brand new import of that branch. If that doesn't
fail then it seems that either the new code isn't being used for the
head import, or that the fix didn't fix it for all situations.

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cscvs breaks when a cvs merge creates a file
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120977
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Status in Launchpad's version of cscvs: Fix Released
Status in NUnit V2 Test Framework: Fix Released

Bug description:
This affects many imports, as can be seen on the https://help.launchpad.net/VcsImportRequests page.

It's something to do with 'dead' revisions.  When a file is created on a branch, it gets an entry in the log of the MAIN branch but with a 'dead' revision state, more commonly seen when a file is 'cvs rm'ed.  Then, when this branch is merged to MAIN, cvcvs freaks, with an exception like:

    On changeset MAIN.7669 ValueError: attempt to patch non extant file : docs/design/draft-missing-plugins.txt

This link is very relevant, and gives a recipe for the cscvs test suite:

http://ximbiot.com/cvs/wiki/index.php?title=CVS--Concurrent_Versions_System_v1.12.12.1:_Branching_and_merging#Merging_can_add_or_remove_files