cvs problems ...

[Paolo Bonzini]

> The bug is caused by the special mods that we have in CVS which speed up
> operations on the trunk.  A separate "cache" (called fileattr) file is
> created which contains version information for all files in a directory.
> In certain pathological conditions, this file can occasionally become
> out of date wrt to the files it references.

Maybe you could modify the patch to the CVS server, so that it just 
clears the fileattr file (or forces its update, whatever is more 
convenient) and proceeds with the RCS file's metadata?

Paolo