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Re: Info about strange files in repository
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stefano costa |
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Re: Info about strange files in repository |
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Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:03:07 +0200 |
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Larry Jones ha scritto:
> stefano costa writes:
>> now my only doubt is related to file with names starting
>> with a comma like:
>> "clienti/E9/sw/,pippo.doc,"
>
> When CVS writes an RCS file, it creates the file with a name like that.
> Once the file has been written successfully, it renames it to the
> regular name (pippo.doc,v). That keeps other processes from seeing
> partially-written files and guarantees that the old version of the file
> is still available if something goes wrong creating the new version.
>
So I assume that I can safely delete ALL files beginning with a comma in
my repository (well after a good backup...) since I'm sure that the
server disaster happened while no user was accessing CVS, and the files
are for sure deleted files resumed during the data recovery process...
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