RE: [Monotone-devel] how to recover damaged database?

[Kelly F. Hickel]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathaniel Smith [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 3:40 PM
> To: Kelly F. Hickel
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Monotone-devel] how to recover damaged database?
> 
> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 07:31:43AM -0500, Kelly F. Hickel wrote:
> > Thanks for the information, it helps.  I had imported one cvs module
> > which worked fine, then imported another, after that I got the
errors.
> > So, I suspect it would work with a fresh DB.  Since ultimately I
want
> > everything in a single DB, would I just import each module to it's
own
> > DB, then merge the DBs together?
> 
> If it works, then go for it.  However, I'm still guessing that the
> problem will occur whenever you try to import that particular CVS
> module :-).  If that turns out to be the case, we can try to work out
> what the cvs_import bug is.

There are probably several thousand files in that cvs module, is there
any simple way to figure out which has the problem?  There are over
71,000 files in our entire cvs repo, somve files have almost 2000
branches/tags.  If we decide to go with monotone, we'd probably split
those into 2-3 DBs.....

> 
> -- Nathaniel
> 
> --
> "On arrival in my ward I was immediately served with lunch. `This is
> what you ordered yesterday.' I pointed out that I had just arrived,
> only to be told: `This is what your bed ordered.'"
>   -- Letter to the Editor, The Times, September 2000


-Kelly