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Re: Corrupted files in ATTIC
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Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: Corrupted files in ATTIC |
Date: |
Thu, 16 May 2002 14:36:06 -0400 (EDT) |
Eric Siegerman writes:
>
> Are the files *supposed* to be live or dead? If they're supposed
> to be live, just move the ,v files out of the Attic:
> cd $CVSROOT/.../Attic
> mv foo,v ..
> Make sure you're not clobbering an existing ../foo,v of course.
There won't be both a foo,v and and Attic/foo,v unless CVS is *really*
broken. (It was a little broken or you wouldn't have ended up with live
files in the Attic, unless they were removed by a very old release of
CVS prior to the death support being added. Since the previous revision
is dead, that's not very likely.)
> Possibly, but I doubt it. CVS's data structures are corrupt, so
> I doubt CVS can fix it. Fortunately, it's a benign sort of
> corruption that's easily fixed by means external to CVS :-)
If the files are supposed to be alive, then checking them out and
forcing a commit will cause recent versions of CVS to move them out of
the Attic. (Old versions of CVS will error out in this case.)
-Larry Jones
My upbringing is filled with inconsistent messages. -- Calvin