Re: corrupt cvs repo

[Jon Ringle]

On Monday 03 October 2005 04:53 pm, Larry Jones wrote:
> Jon Ringle writes:
> > 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.
>
> Sorry, I forgot how validate_repo works -- it parses the output from
> ``cvs log'', it doesn't parse the RCS file directly.  It appears that
> validate_repo was never updated to handle the new log output format that
> includes timezone information.  Please apply the following patch to
> validate_repo.in and then run make to remake validate_repo.

Thanks.

Now I'm getting somewhere with regards to the actual corruption I have in my 
repo. It appears that I have several (3124) files... that have invalid revs; 
things like rev 0.0.0.1 or .1 or 0.12 for instance.

Is there a recommended course of action to repair?

Jon