RE: CVS corruption

[Tehn Yit Chin]

Thanks for the info. I did mean the CVS binary corrupting.

It is good the hear that the file can be salvage by hand if required. Would
it be just as easy if the file is a binary?

-----Original Message-----
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Rob Helmer
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 10:36 AM
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Subject: Re: CVS corruption


Hello,


Well, if files in the repository are corrupted, it will not help to
reinstall CVS. You'll need to try to salvage them somehow, or restore
them from backup.

If you mean the CVS binary or installation is somehow corrupted, remember
that every file in the repository is an RCS file, so you can access the
file with RCS as well as CVS ( you could even put a file together
by hand if you wanted, the format isn't difficult to parse ).



HTH,
Rob Helmer


On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 08:45:12AM +1000, Tehn Yit Chin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> If CVS gets corrupted, can the files in the repository be accessed without
> reinstalling CVS?
>
> thanks,
> Tehn Yit Chin
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