RE: Consistency check of repository & knowing whether files are b eing watched

[Jim.Hyslop]

marko wrote:
> SORRY IN CASE THIS MESSAGE APPEARED MORE THAN ONCE, LOOKS 
> LIKE THERE IS A
> PROBLEM WITH SUBMITTING POSTS...
No need to shout, we heard you the first time. Really - your first message
arrived in my inbox at 6:55 this a.m. ;-)

> is it possible to check the consistency of a repository? Sometimes I
> modify my repository by hand... something forbidden, I know...
Well, as long as you are prepared to live with the consequences if you
should mess anything up...

Have a look at the check-cvs script in the contrib/ directory (of the source
distribution). That may do what you want, or at the very least get you
started in the right direction.

> Also it would be interesting to know whether there is a way to check
> whether all files of a given repository are actually being watched...
> 
> Moving directories in the repository around isn't a big deal, 
> but moving
> files and forgetting to modify the CVS/fileattr entries can become
> troublesome, I guess.
All the more reason to use the CVS interface to move files ;)

I don't think any of the scripts in contrib/ do that, but if you write
something I know I'd be interested in seeing it - one of the problems I've
found is that when people leave (particularly co-op students) they don't
issue 'cvs watch off', so I get bounce messages from our mailer daemon
saying "no such address" for people who've left long ago. I've not yet found
a clean solution for that.

-- 
Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com)
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts)