Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Corrupt archive

[Tom Cato Amundsen]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 05:15:04PM -0500, John A Meinel wrote:
> Any idea *why* your archive was corrupted? It sounds like someone's
> pristine (or revlib) was out of date, and it wasn't caught by tla.
> Or you deleted a revision from the archive, but didn't delete it from
> either a pristine tree or the revlib (remember changing history is
> dangerous).

I'm not sure. It is possible that I did change history.
Anyway, I fixed the problem by changing history a little more, before
your email :-) Does the arch developers want to look at the archive, or
shall we assume I did some nasty things that caused the problem?

I moved the corrupted patch-28 and the newer patches out of the archive,
did a fresh checkout "get solfege--main--2.5--patch-27", did a new merge
from solfege--main--2.3 and the did a little scripting that unpacked the
patches patch-29 to patch-33, applied the patches and committed them
one by one again.

I know this will break things for people using the archive, but I think
a little asking around will confirm that the only user is me.

> 
> The easiest way to workaround a problem like this is to branch from the
> last good patch, and then replay any patches you want to keep.
> 
> In this case it would be:
> 
> tla tag -S address@hidden/solfege--main--2.5--patch-27 \
>       address@hidden/solfege--main-2.5.0
> tla get address@hidden/solfege--main-2.5.0 solfege-new
> cd solfege-new
> tla replay address@hidden/solfege--main--2.5--patch-29
> tla commit
> tla replay ...-patch-30
> tla commit
> ...
> tla replay ...-patch-35
> tla commit
> 
> You could bundle them all up, and only do 1 commit, but it depends on
> what you were doing. Often it is good to have each changeset be
> committed individually.
> 
> John
> =:->



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