Re: cvs history: warning: history line invalid

[Larry Jones]

Martin d'Anjou writes:
> 
> cvs history: warning: history line 51999 invalid
> cvs history: warning: history line 61598 invalid
> cvs history: warning: history line 61602 invalid
[...]
> I do not know how any of it happened.
> 
> How can I fix this problem?

You can use any text editor of your choice to try to repair the damaged
lines, or just delete them.  You will need to make sure that no one is
using CVS while you do that, though.  Is your repository on a shared
filesystem of some sort?  If so, I strongly urge you to use client/
server CVS with the repository locally mounted on the server instead --
we've had lots of reports of that kind of corruption caused by
interoperability bugs in network filesystems.  If that's not the case,
I'd say your system has bugs in its implementation of append-mode files.

-Larry Jones

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