[cvsnt] Upgrade from CVSNT 2.0.51d to CVSNT 2.5.03 2382 - InvalidRCS Flags

[Sean Bertinotti]

Hi Glen,

They are *.dcu,v. We did have an older version before 2.0.51d possibly 
got corrupt then, because these particular modules were commited once 
and pretty much never used again. Yet in saying that I see that some 
.identcache,v files are also corrupt. I believe it is a BDS2006 file 
also binary, also missing CVSNT header and looking like garbage, don't 
know how it got corrupted. Luckily though (touch wood) all the files I 
have found so far shouldn't actually be in the CVS as they can get 
recreated by Delphi.

Thank you very much for your help. I still love CVS for it's ease of use 
and fairly easy to understand. I have learnt new things today and I'm 
happy about that.

Regards and thanks once again,
Sean B


Glen Starrett wrote:
> Sean Bertinotti wrote:
>> It appears that all the offending files I have found so far are *.dcu 
>> (Delphi Compiled Units) I am deleting them from the repository as they 
>> should not be in the CVS anyway. This is a binary file, so I am 
>> concerned that I will come across different binary files with the same 
>> problem. It will be a long night for me :P
> 
> Are these files in your repository as *.dcu,v or just *.dcu?  If they 
> don't have the ,v at the end then they shouldn't be in your repository 
> at all -- someone put them in there accidentally I bet.
> 
>> I am now endeavoring to manually repair my modules using trace to 
>> identify the offending file, and deleting it from the repository. Do 
>> another checkout with trace and repeat steps :) Please let me know if 
>> this is alright to do. I have reverted to CVSNT 2.5.03 as it was 
>> running a lot faster than 2.4.03 on my machines.
> 
> Just make sure you have a good backup of everything, and it's fine to 
> delete the bad ones.  You can re-add good copies later if you find 
> anything that's corrupt that really should be there.
> 
> If you're messing with a production repository then much more care will 
> be needed.
> 
> Regards,
>