Starting Over... Again

Submitted by jason on Sun, 2006-08-06 13:37.

Well, I seem to have totally destroyed this site through some weird fluke (and lack of understanding) of CVS. I had set it up using Ted Serbinski's CVS Quick Reference. If done right, it makes it so much easier to setup a Drupal site and to keep it updated. Well, something weird started happening with oadaeh.net when I did my updates. For no reason that I could find, it started downloading HEAD (instead of the 4.7 it was initially setup with) and every contributed module and theme available. I have other sites setup using the same exact methodology, same code, same commands, same everything -- except the download everything possible madness.

Several times I wiped the directory and started over, and everything would work fine for a while, then not. One time I simply downloaded a copy of 4.7 and left it w/o any contributed items. It eventually did the same thing. In my last attempt to figure out and correct the problem, I totally disabled the site. So, since I had already spent way too much time on the problem, I decided to just rebuild the site from scratch using the normal method of downloading the tarballs. There's not much here yet, but it's still a pain to have to start over.