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Re: corrupt cvs repo


From: Jon Ringle
Subject: 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

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