Re: [Simulavr-devel] State of Repository

[Joel Sherrill]

Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> As Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
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> > I don't remember anyone passing this along.
> >     
>
> Ouch, where have you've been? ;-)
>   
LOL.  Busy. Out of town over the weekend and sunburned
badly.
> I've even cc'ed you in an email, containing a recovery plan.
>
>   
Sorry.  I must really be out of it this week.  Better double
check all my inbox. LOL
> > I was updating my local copy nearly daily so
> >     
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> I guess that's a working copy only, is it?
>
>   
Yes.  Just a working copy but enough to see if anything
got missed in a backup and force a commit of all changes
> > should be able to address any missing commits
> > after things are back online.
> >     
>
> Please try to see whether my suggested recovery plan would work (rsync
> the 20090429 backup, then rsync the 2009059-incomplete backup on top
> of that, then try cvs update'ing a copy of your working copy against
> that repository, to see whether it will complain about anything
> missing in the repository).  As you've apparently got the most recent
> working copy (the last commit has been yours), this should tell us
> whether the recovered repo will match your working copy or not.
>
>   
That should work.  I will be careful to save a copy of my last
tree so it doesn't get destroyed or mangled during this.

> > Did anyone have any commits after that?
> >     
>
> No, you've been the last one to commit something.  Fortunately, we've
> got a CVS commit mailing list, and even though only Eric and me ever
> subscribed to that list, Mailman happily archives all the commit
> emails that way.
>   

Well at least there isn't much.  :)

--joel