From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66504 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: cvs repository corruption Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:37:36 +0100 Message-ID: References: <66a8b7a0803161125k5e5358c2sa7236bbc0b11865b@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205698148 22682 80.91.229.12 (16 Mar 2008 20:09:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:09:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , Bastien Guerry , ding@gnus.org To: Per Abrahamsen Original-X-From: ding-owner+M14992@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Mar 16 21:09:36 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JazAk-0005LD-MW for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:09:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Jaz9Q-0002gl-4g; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:08:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Jaz9N-0002gZ-Ii for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:08:09 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Jaz9H-0002uS-0E for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:08:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Jaz9O-0005mQ-00; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:08:10 +0100 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m2GJch7X005649; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:38:43 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from localhost (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13FDC13027; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:38:43 +0100 (CET) X-Face: 1;h7XMU[7l}$T@J.D}5z*w8Tg'}B5ArAWc8>2X~otB;kOjKs8X%|hTC#dG:%Vpx")x7S/`v :VXU#fZW$X$zdhEU.RfVQ@<-m9IuN{Hm"fW{,5]6kR'M*vEs+{5Cj!L(JTRzA$(},?5J=sm;%Od, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , Bastien Guerry , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <66a8b7a0803161125k5e5358c2sa7236bbc0b11865b@mail.gmail.com> (Per Abrahamsen's message of "Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:25:19 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-Rhyolite-Metrics: poseidon 104; Body=4 Fuz1=4 Fuz2=4 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:66504 Archived-At: 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. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/