Fails to get a specific revision of a specific file

[luc-j-bourhis]

I get the following error

...
2002-08-02 04:33:18 RDT COMMITMissed first time round: plugins/saint/makefile.win32-msvc 1.1
cvs checkout - failed to get plugins/saint/makefile.win32-msvc 1.1
fatal: stream ends early
...

After checking out the repo with CVS, the following works

cvs up -r1.1 -p Makefile.win32-msvc

Unfortunately I cannot share the repository with you as this is company code! crap has been working for years on that repository, flawlessly so. I am at a loss at what could have happened suddenly.

This is with CVS 1.11.23 on Cygwin with crap at commit d985bbb (the merge of the pull request of mine adding keyword support).

[rcls]

The error message has 'makefile...' your manual command has 'Makefile...'.
Is this a Windows CVS server by any chance? If so the server may get confused if there is a deleted file with one capitalization and a non-deleted file with the other?
A proper fix would be to close the CVS connection and reopen it if getting a file revision fails.
We can probably workaround by getting crap's version cache populated for this file, once that is done, crap won't attempt to download that version again.

[luc-j-bourhis]

Well spotted indeed! This issue is then related to the old #19 we agreed was too complicated to fix: what I did after that was to make my Windows disk case-sensitive and it solved the problem. I have just checked: the disk is case-insensitive now. Probably some IT intervention. I did not see the problem because of crap-clone caching. It resurfaced only because I ran it from scratch again, I guess.

So it would be nice if you could work out a hack on your side for sure. But I can perform the same hack again on my side. Thanks again for that great tool which saves my day every day!

[luc-j-bourhis]

Eventually the best solution is to install Ubuntu inside WSL, which is available out of the box on Windows 10. The filesystem is case-sensitive by default and crap-clone runs faster than on Cygwin. You may therefore close this issue as this is a bullet-proof solution for anybody who needs crap-clone on Windows 10.