Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I do that also, but I am also careful to prune repository > directories (CVS, .svn or SCCS even). I rather doubt it is my RAM, > BTW. Perhaps a disk sector, but I'll never know now. (Were it RAM, > the failure would be random and not just the one file.) The original > data were rm-ed and replaced with a new pull of the Ada code.
Yup, I've seen change of capitalization of a single letter in files due to bad disk sectors before, even on relatively modern hardware. It's a single bit error, so it's an explainable failure mode. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
