Re: corrupt cvs repo

[Jon Ringle]

On Monday 03 October 2005 03:32 pm, Jon Ringle wrote:
> On Monday 03 October 2005 03:24 pm, Larry Jones wrote:
> > Jon Ringle writes:
> > > Couldn't read date/author/state for revision 1.1
> > > of .lib/zlib-1.1.3/Make_vms.com from `cvs rlog'.
> > > line = date: 2001-11-08 13:44:50 -0500;  author: freddy;  state: Exp;
> >
> > You've been using something other than standard CVS and RCS on your
> > repository -- the correct format for that line is:
> >
> >     date: 2001.11.08.18.44.50;  author: freddy;  state: Exp;
> >
> > If that's the only kind of corruption you have, it should be repairable,
> > but I don't know of any existing tool to fix it.
>
> An examination of .lib/zlib-1.1.3/Make_vms.com,v (attached) reveals that
> this line is correctly formatted as you point out. It appears that the
> validate-repo script is not dumping the line verbatim, and is transforming
> the date.

It appears that the problem was that I was using cvs 1.12.11 when running the 
validate_repo script. cvs 1.12.11 appends a space and the time zone on the 
date when using cvs rlog. When I used cvs 1.11.17 on another machine, I did 
not see this problem.

Jon