Re: cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in filename,v

2002-09-25 Thread Larry Jones
Mike Ayers writes: BTW, it is my current suspicion that the failure occured immediately after CVS let go of the data - during the physical write to disk. Does anyone know if CVS verify its writes? No, it assumes the system actually works. With a real operating system, verifying writes

Re: cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in filename,v

2002-09-24 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: Todd Denniston writes: Not that I WANT to work in the windows environment, but if CVS/RCS as a repository is unstable in a local mode there, I would like to know if it is something CVS is doing or could protect against (besides refusing to work there :). If the data

Re: cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in filename,v

2002-09-23 Thread Larry Jones
Peter S. Shenkin writes: cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in filename,v That means that your repository has been corrupted. Donald Sharp posted a perl script a while back that checks a repository for corruption; I suggest you get it and run it: http://mail.gnu.org

Re: cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in filename,v

2002-09-23 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: Unfortunately, there's no easy way to fix your corrupted files; you'll either have to live with them, try to recreate them, or become intimately familiar with the RCS file format and try to repair them by hand. DUDE! Backups... I have had

Re: cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in filename,v

2002-09-23 Thread Larry Jones
Mike Ayers writes: I have had problems on a few occasions recently with files getting corrupted in my archive (oddest thing, really - I am only operating in local mode on local drives, but I *am* running Windows...), which have, fortunately, occured on rarely checked in files (the

Re: cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in filename,v

2002-09-23 Thread Todd Denniston
Larry Jones wrote: Mike Ayers writes: I have had problems on a few occasions recently with files getting corrupted in my archive (oddest thing, really - I am only operating in local mode on local drives, but I *am* running Windows...), which have, fortunately, occured on rarely

Re: cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in filename,v

2002-09-23 Thread Larry Jones
Todd Denniston writes: Not that I WANT to work in the windows environment, but if CVS/RCS as a repository is unstable in a local mode there, I would like to know if it is something CVS is doing or could protect against (besides refusing to work there :). If the data gets corrupted when CVS

Re: cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in filename,v

2002-09-23 Thread shenkin
(EDT) Larry Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter S. Shenkin writes: cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in filename,v That means that your repository has been corrupted. Donald Sharp posted a perl script a while back that checks a repository for corruption; I suggest you get

Re: cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in filename,v

2002-09-23 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 06:08:04PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The requested URL /pipermail/info-cvs/2001-June/015932.html was not found on this server. Does anyone have a copy of Donald Sharp's script that they can mail or post? Attached. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman,

Re: cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in filename,v

2002-09-23 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The requested URL /pipermail/info-cvs/2001-June/015932.html was not found on this server. The is not part of the URL. -Larry Jones Everybody's a slave to routine. -- Calvin ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in filename,v

2002-09-22 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
Hi, I posted this request on gnu.cvs.help, but got no response. Thought I'd try here I'm getting the following errmsg from cvs annotate on several files; most files are fine. cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in filename,v I've done a net search and a search

Re: cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in filename,v

2002-09-22 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
errmsg from cvs annotate on several files; most files are fine. cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in filename,v I've done a net search and a search in this newsgroup for this message and haven't found anything illuminating. Also a search of the relevant manuals. cvs