[cvsnt] Re: Broken RCS file?

[Tony Hoyle]

John Peacock wrote:
> On a particular file, if I try and get log (for example to generate a 
> graph within WinCVS), I get the following message:
> 
> cvs -q log cimmaron.pl (in directory D:\working\PerlCimarronProgram\)
> cvs [server aborted]: unexpected '\x50' reading revision number in RCS 
> file W:/cvs-repository/PerlCimarronProgram/cimmaron.pl,v
> 
> I don't know when it broke.  I can apparently check out any specific 
> version, but I cannot get a log file (even if I specify just the last 
> two revisions using -r).

Log read the first half of the file then filters it, so it's doing a 
different thing to checkout which just looks for specific data.

It sounds like something is corrupted.. it should be obvious if you look 
at the file in a text editor - the error will be near the top probably.

I'd be worried about how it got like that - there are only two ways I 
can think of... either some form of disk corruption or someone tried to 
modify it by hand & got it wrong.  Neither are particularly healthy.

Tony