2009-05-11 09:40 AEST by Arthur Barrett - I tried using Netbeans 4.1 on windows and adding a file called fooÖÖ.java and 
it committed ok and appeared in the server repo correctly I think:

$ ls netbeans/sample/anagramgame/src/com/toy/anagrams/ui/
About.form,v  Anagrams.form,v  CVS           zooÖÖ.java,v
About.java,v  Anagrams.java,v  zooÖÖ.form,v

However I think I've broken fileattr.xml (note: I was using the bug 5555 
patches, however I had NOT set DefaultClientCodepage).  

MacAir:Documents abarrett$ cvs -d :ext:intranet.unifacecm.com/scotty co 
netbeans/sample
cvs server: Updating netbeans/sample
cvs server: Updating netbeans/sample/anagramgame
U netbeans/sample/anagramgame/build.xml
cvs server: Updating netbeans/sample/anagramgame/nbproject
U netbeans/sample/anagramgame/nbproject/build-impl.xml
U netbeans/sample/anagramgame/nbproject/genfiles.properties
U netbeans/sample/anagramgame/nbproject/project.properties
U netbeans/sample/anagramgame/nbproject/project.xml
cvs server: Updating netbeans/sample/anagramgame/src
cvs server: Updating netbeans/sample/anagramgame/src/com
cvs server: Updating netbeans/sample/anagramgame/src/com/toy
cvs server: Updating netbeans/sample/anagramgame/src/com/toy/anagrams
cvs server: Updating netbeans/sample/anagramgame/src/com/toy/anagrams/lib
U netbeans/sample/anagramgame/src/com/toy/anagrams/lib/WordLibrary.java
XML error at line 1: Document is empty

XML error at line 1: Start tag expected, '<' not found

cvs server: Updating netbeans/sample/anagramgame/src/com/toy/anagrams/ui
XML error at line 1: Document is empty

XML error at line 1: Start tag expected, '<' not found

cvs [server aborted]: Malformed fileattr.xml file 
in /scotty/netbeans/sample/anagramgame/src/com/toy/anagrams/ui/CVS.  Please fix 
or delete this file
MacAir:Documents abarrett$ cvs ver
Concurrent Versions System (CVSNT) 2.5.04 (Zen) Build 3125 (RC 8) 
(client/server)


If you log in (ssh) to debiancvs.march-hare.local (our outside the intranet 
just ssh to mail.march-hare.com) then you can look at the server traces:

abarrett@debiancvs:~/cvsnt$ ls -la /tmp/cvs*.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 abarrett abarrett 245199 2009-05-01 06:50 /tmp/cvs18981.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root       2239 2009-05-01 06:51 /tmp/cvs18986.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root      17517 2009-05-01 06:51 /tmp/cvs18987.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root      17517 2009-05-01 06:51 /tmp/cvs18988.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root      17517 2009-05-01 06:51 /tmp/cvs18991.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root      17517 2009-05-01 06:51 /tmp/cvs18992.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root      17517 2009-05-01 06:51 /tmp/cvs18995.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root      17517 2009-05-01 06:51 /tmp/cvs18996.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 abarrett abarrett 104811 2009-05-01 06:51 /tmp/cvs19000.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 abarrett abarrett 108122 2009-05-01 06:51 /tmp/cvs19007.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root     382349 2009-05-01 06:52 /tmp/cvs19032.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root      63268 2009-05-01 07:03 /tmp/cvs22909.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root      63268 2009-05-01 07:03 /tmp/cvs22911.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root      70793 2009-05-01 07:08 /tmp/cvs22938.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root     220057 2009-05-01 07:08 /tmp/cvs22940.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root     133843 2009-05-01 07:08 /tmp/cvs22947.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 abarrett abarrett 313843 2009-05-01 07:14 /tmp/cvs22983.log

2009-05-11 15:39 AEST by Arthur Barrett - This was done using 2.5.04 server.

I've had a quick look at the fileattr.cpp code in 2.5.03 and can't see any way 
that an empty fileattr can be written - perhaps need to look at the fact that 
it's been written then some sort of 'delete' occurred on the contents, or that 
the code in 2.5.04 is somehow not as failsafe...