Re: cvs repository corruption

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Sun, Mar 16 2008, Per Abrahamsen wrote:

> I found this message searching for the Bastien's report:
>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60810
> Not sure if the patch was applied or not.

Lars thinks that it was applied.  A spot tests seem to confirm this,
e.g. "; Collect all subjects matching reg-subject." is present in the
current ,v file.

> I don't know much about cvs.  Would it work simply to remove the file
> from the repository, and add a fresh copy?
> History would be lost, but at least the file would be syntactically valid.

I don't think that is a good idea.  Commands requesting older tags or
dates on the whole tree or on gnus-uu.el would fail or give wrong
results (including commands for quite recent versions), e.g.

  cvs co -r v5-0-2

  cvs diff -r p0-4 -r p0-50 [gnus-uu.el]

Currently revisions back to revision 5.1 (pgnus) of gnus-uu.el work
correctly, AFAICS.  (I tried some `d's in a cvs log buffer) Failure
happen for revision 4.20 (1998/08/27) and earlier revisions.

As the mapping of releases to revisions (cvs log) is intact and the
ftp (mirror) sites still have dgnus-0.*-0.*.diff.gz etc, it could even
be possible to reconstruct the information approximately (with
sufficient knowledge about the RCS format).

Maybe Lars has older backups of the repository?

Bye, Reiner.
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