RE: I want to change the CVS history file

[TTaylor]

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The lines in the history file consist of fields separated by '|'
characters.
The first field: M3cd13118 indicates the type of operation ('M' is
commit from modified file) and the rest of this field is the
timestamp of the operation in hex.  This timestamp is the number of
seconds since midnight 1/1/1970.
- - Tim

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From: Anders Bülow [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 9:01 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: I want to change the CVS history file 


Hi
 
We use the command 
cvs history -a -c -D "<Time of last report>" 
to generate a report of who committed which files when.
 
But someone "by accident" set the local time on her machine 1 year
into the future.
Now her commits shows up on every report.
I changed all the timestamps on the files in the repository.
But the command 
cvs history -a -c -D "<Time of last report>" 
still shows she committed something in 2002.

How can I change the line:
M3cd13118|line|C:\Src2k\BPMain|Src2000/BP/Digitalis/Components/BPLivSe
lskab|1.40|BPLivSelskab.cpp
in the history file in CVSROOT to reflect the correct time?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Anders Bülow

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