[cvsnt] Re: upgrade from 2.0.2 to 2.0.58d

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Mon Dec 20 14:17:33 GMT 2004


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Stéphane Nicoll wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I have problems upgrading an old repository to CVS NT 2.0.58d. The error is:
>  
> cvs [server aborted]: file attribute database corruption: tab missing in /myRepo/foo/bar/CVS/fileattr
>  
> I tried to remove watchers and edit so that my file only contains
>  
> Dthefile.xml
> Danotherfile.java
>  
You've corrupted the file...  the best thing to do is to delete it if 
you don't need to upgraded the watches - you can't manually remove 
watchers and edit from the fileattr file as it's a fixed format file.

Tony



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