Re: Comparing CVS and SourceSafe (was RE: query)

[Donald Sharp]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 01:15:21PM -0700, Glew, Andy wrote:
> > I'd be carefull about saying that you can fix this.  A corrupted ,v
> > generally not saveable.  I've had plenty of times where
> > I know a ,v file is corrupted in one of the versions.  There
> > is nothing I can do to retrieve that lost data.  Yes good backups
> > are key but with cvs's mechanism of looking at data, corrupted
> > files can exist for a long time before you discover that it has
> > become corrupted.  Months/Years can go by...
> 
> 
> Run something like this pseudo script as often as you like:
> 
>   FOR EACH file F in repository
>     FOR EACH version V in its ,v file
>       cvs co -rV F
>       compute checksum, and compare to a saved checksum
> 
> This checks that all versions you can extract are okay.
> You then need to verify that there are no missing versions
> - that's a bit more of a pain, since to do so totally transparent,
> in the presence of -o outdating, is more of a change.
> But if you never remove versions, having a checkin script
> or even the above scanner save the checksum suffices,
> and then you have a BOM.
> 
> 
> As in all things CVS, you need to roll this yourself.
> 

I already got wrote this months ago ;).  Check the archives
I've posted it..

donald