On 3/8/2011 12:38 PM, Jan Danielsson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Ever since the early days when I was using perforce, subversion,
> bazaar, etc I've had - as a part of my maintenance backup scripts - a
> repository check to verify the integrity of it prior to archiving the
> file(s) and sending them to a remote backup server.
>
> I've read that fossil does extensive checks during normal operation,
> and that these extra checks can be disabled using the repo-cksum. Let's
I believe you have a misunderstanding here ... The docs of repo-cksum say
repo-cksum Compute checksums over all files in each checkout
as a double-check of correctness. Defaults to "on".
Disable on large repositories for a performance
improvement.
Note how it refers to a checkout. This is a check done when you are committing
files. Of the checkout against the small database in the workspace holding file
status information.
This is not a check of the full repository itself. As you seem to wish to
perform before archiving it.
Richard's answer told you how to epxlicitly run the repo-cksum per the above,
for a specific checkout/workspace.
My answer told you internal commands doing a full repository integrity check.
> say I want to disable repo-cksum for a rather large project. But for
> each weekly maintenance, I'd like to run an ultra-paranoid check of the
> entire repository before archiving it and sending it off to the remote
> backup server. Is there an explicit command to do this (fossil help
> doesn't list any particularly obvious "check", "fsck" or anything of the
> sort), or can one provoke such a check to happen without re-enabling the
> repo-cksum setting?
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