[cvsnt] Re: check CVS repository integrity

Glen Starrett glen.starrett at march-hare.com
Wed May 17 17:22:03 BST 2006


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Guelck, Matthias RD-IS-E23 wrote:
> Is there any way to check the integrity of a CVS repository without
> checking out all projects?

Your safest bet would be to restore your repository to a recent backup 
and re-commit any recent changes since the failure.

The log / rlog commands parse out the files and would find the ones that 
are badly corrupt, but I don't believe it would catch just a few bits 
within the data portion.

Regards,

-- 
Glen Starrett



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