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This was still bugging me so I finally resorted to brute force to figure out what was wrong with the ,v file. I manually cut revisions out of the ,v file (using a binary reduction method: cut out half the revisions; if it still has a problem, cut out half of what's left, etc.) until I found the section that caused the problem. It was a log and text (diff) section for rev 1.84.2.1. This branch was not mentioned in the symbols section at the top of the file, i.e., there was no tag for the branch 1.84.0.2. After looking at other files in the repository, I added a symbol for the branch at the right place: v2-patches:1.84.0.2, but I still couldn't log the file. Since the change in the rev 1.84.2.1 file on the branch was also on the trunk, and there was no mention of this branch in a branch field in this file (meaning no revisions on this branch were otherwise known), and there didn't appear to be any revisions on that branch tagged in other files, and it's old (past support), and there was no mention of anything related in other documentation, I just deleted the anomalous log and text section. This cleared up the logging problem. Whew! Of course, the question still remains as to how this happened. It's as if someone attempted to remove a branch (perhaps manually?), but didn't completely succeed. More comments below... Garyl Arthur Barrett wrote: > Garyl >> One thing that's different than most is this >> file was renamed and moved to a different directory >> at some point >> > Was that with "cvs rename" ? > Probably not, as I don't think we were aware of the cvs rename command. Does it support a directory change? It was most likely done using the "normal" procedure using copy /old-filename //new-filename, /cvs add /new-filename/, cvs remove /old-filename/, and cvs ci -r/rev/. Both the old (dead) and new files exist and I can run cvs log on the old filename. The comment for its last revision says it was renamed to the new filename. According to the ,v file for the new file, its first revision is the same as the last revision of the old filename. Both the last revision of the old file and the first revision of the new file have the same comment and the same commitid. >> and the initial revision is 1.26. But starting a >> file with a specific revision number should work >> > Yes it *should* but it is not recommended and probably not tested for > years. > FYI, it seems to work fine for other files in this repository, and now this one, once the vestiges of the deleted branch were removed. >> Are there any tools to analyze the ,v file in >> more detail or to repair it? >> > You've done it already - "cvs log" is the way to analyze the ,v file... >> P.S. I'm running CVSNT 2.5.03 (Scorpio) Build 2151 >> on Windows Server 2000. >> > If possible please upgrade to 2.5.03.2382 - but it probably wont fix > this... > > If it still occurs - send the RCS file to support at march-hare.com and we > will file it and put it on the bug list. We won't look at it for a > while - but we'll never look at it unless we have a test set... > > Regards, > > > Arthur