We get all kinds of error messages - unrecognized command /x## in <file>
unexpected EOF in diff in <file> are the two most common - and looking at the text of the files they are obviously corrupt. And 1.11.2 is not just noticing it - we tried 4 different versions of CVS ranging back to 1.9.xx and all saw corruption after the fact and not before. Yes - checking out branches without adding a tag works just fine with both 1.11.2 and the earlier versions of CVS. After adding the tag all versions are upset... I ran my own script and checked out 100 different branches and it worked fine before adding the branch, and breaks big-time afterwards. I'm getting the perl script and will run it, but I don't expect it to find any corruption - I will also look and see if I can find some inocuous files with corruption for diffing purposes. -Mike Quinn *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 9/19/2002 at 10:51 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Mike Quinn writes: >> >> configuration is a CVS database in an NFS or locally-mounted repository >(I can >> reproduce it either way), > >If you've been working with an NFS-mounted repository, it's entirely >possible that it's already corrupted and 1.11.2 is just noticing it >where earlier versions didn't. > >> we added a branch tag, and at that point most of our CVS database became >corrupt >> (checkouts, updates, diffs all complain about the format of the files). > >It would be helpful to know exactly what error message(s) you get. > >> Both >> cvs tag and cvs rtag will reproduce the problem. Nothing special - just >> >> cvs tag -b -r <branch> <newbranch> or the rtag equivalent >> >> I've restored our database from a backup, and if I add a tag, I can >duplicate >> the problem. Everything looks fine if you check out the HEAD of the >tree, but >> if you try to check out any branch tag, you will get corruption problems. > >Have you tried checking out a branch *without* adding a new tag? My >guess is you'll have exactly the same problem. Donald Sharp posted a >perl script a while back to check a repository for corruption -- I >suggest you get it and run it: > > <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/info-cvs/2001-June/015932.html> > >-Larry Jones > >I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple. -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Bug-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cvs
