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>From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] 
>On Behalf Of Stephen R Phillips
>Sent: 24 May 2007 12:44
>To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
>Subject: Re: [EE] CVS guru required
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>You probably should not be use CVS. Although this is after the 
>fact. CVS is entirely dependent on the user being 100% 
>competent. This as you know can be a highly improbable (LOL) 
>method of ensuring things work right. CVS as a consequence 
>REQUIRES frequent (see DAILY) backup before allowing commits.  
>SVN gives significant improvements over CVS with the added 
>benefit of not giving the ability to NUKE an entire repository 
>by one individual uploading changes.  It keeps track of 
>revisions for each file (not just the whole committal etc.)
>

The CVS repository is on a server which has daily backups. Unfortunately restoring a backup prior to this event isn't a great idea as a fair bit of stuff has been checked in since then (I went on vacation for a week on the day it happened).

I have no choice in using or not using CVS, it's an established repositry from another (off-site) group, most of whome (including administrator) have been made redundant.  I have been landed with most of the projects and admin of the CVS repositry, despite explaingin my lack of experience with CVS.  I know it's a sharp learning curve, but I don't have much choice at this stage.  The user who's checkin went wrong was apparently trying to create branch, but it seems he has less experience than I do. 


>As for the repository I suggest if you can get someone with 
>shell access to back up the entire site to do so ASAP.  You 
>will then need to pick through the pieces and try and make 
>sense of it.  That is the only
>suggestion I can make.   As I said unfortunately CVS affords little
>protection when it comes to people making revisions, of them 
>nuking the entire file set, and making the entire repository 
>useless.  This has happened to some big projects on source 
>forge hence source forge now recommends SVN use only.

I have full access to the server and can browse the repository etc.  Before he left the previous admin showed me a collection of zipped up versions of the repository that he used to make fairly regulary as a double back-up.

Regards

Mike

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