Re: cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in <filename,v>

[Larry Jones]

Peter S. Shenkin writes:
> 
>     cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in <filename,v>

That means that your repository has been corrupted.  Donald Sharp posted
a perl script a while back that checks a repository for corruption; I
suggest you get it and run it:

        <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/info-cvs/2001-June/015932.html>

Repository corruption is almost always caused by bugs in network
filesystem code -- if you're using some kind of network filesystem to
access your repository (NFS, Samba, etc.), I strongly suggest that you
immediately switch to client/server CVS with the repository locally
mounted on the server machine.  Unfortunately, there's no easy way to
fix your corrupted files; you'll either have to live with them, try to
recreate them, or become intimately familiar with the RCS file format
and try to repair them by hand.

-Larry Jones

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend. -- Calvin