[cvsnt] Re: fillattr

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Mon Nov 4 23:57:17 GMT 2002


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On Mon, 04 Nov 2002 13:01:14 +0000, Stephane Guerin wrote:

> I got a lot of "false" editor in my CVSNT database. This make the "editor"
> feature a little bit useless because.  I'm looking for a massive clean up
> trick here!  My question is the following: If I delete all the "fileattr"
> file from the repository, beside loosing the current list of editor, will it
> have some "bad" side effect (like corrupting my database!).  I know it sound
> a little bit rough but, I think, editor are a little bit outside the normal
> operation of CVS.  I'll just ask the programmer to do another edit to the
> file they are currently working on.

That should work, I've done it myself once or twice.

Tony




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