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Re: corrupt cvs repo
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Jon Ringle |
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Re: corrupt cvs repo |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:32:05 -0400 |
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On Monday 03 October 2005 03:24 pm, Larry Jones wrote:
> Jon Ringle writes:
> > Couldn't read date/author/state for revision 1.1
> > of .lib/zlib-1.1.3/Make_vms.com from `cvs rlog'.
> > line = date: 2001-11-08 13:44:50 -0500; author: freddy; state: Exp;
>
> You've been using something other than standard CVS and RCS on your
> repository -- the correct format for that line is:
>
> date: 2001.11.08.18.44.50; author: freddy; state: Exp;
>
> If that's the only kind of corruption you have, it should be repairable,
> but I don't know of any existing tool to fix it.
An examination of .lib/zlib-1.1.3/Make_vms.com,v (attached) reveals that this
line is correctly formatted as you point out. It appears that the
validate-repo script is not dumping the line verbatim, and is transforming
the date.
Jon
Make_vms.com,v
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