Re: Problem when doing 'cvs log'

[Larry Jones]

David Yu writes:
> 
> cvs -q log DataDictionaryProxy.java (in directory
> D:\SabaDev\einstein\saba4\sys\java\bserver\com\saba\datadictionary\business\
> )
> cvs [server aborted]: unrecognized operation '\x3d' in
> /sabacvs/saba4/sys/java/bserver/com/saba/datadictionary/business/DataDiction
> aryProxy.java,v

I'm afraid your repository file is corrupted.

> I am still able to check out the file or update to other version.  

I'm not surprised that you can check out the current revision, but some
other revision is corrupt.  I strongly suspect that attempting to check
out (or update to) revision 1.1 won't work.  (If it does, the corruption
is on a branch.)

> And is there is a way to fix it?

Maybe.  If you're very familiar (or are willing to become very familiar)
with the RCS file format and have, or can recreate, or are willing to
dispense with, earlier revisions of the file.  Basically, you'll have to
edit the RCS file by hand.

The more important question is how the file got corrupted in the first
place, whether there are other files in your repository that are also
corrupt, and how to prevent it from happening in the future.  If you
have your repository on some kind of network file system (e.g., Samba or
NFS), that is almost certainly the problem -- you should be using
client/server CVS with the repository locally mounted on the server
machine instead.

-Larry Jones

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
-- Hobbes