RCS

[Adrian Aichner]

Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> writes:

>>>>>> "APA" == Adrian Aichner <adrian at xemacs.org> writes:
>
> [snip]
>
>
>    > Uwe, I use
>    > M-x erevision
>    > in version controlled files and it works well with old and new vc.
>
>
> Ah good point that indeed work without hazzle

So, you have at least two uncorrupted versions of the files.

Try
M-x erevision RET REV RET RET

to ediff revision REV with the current version and report back.

>    >> 
>    >> For me it is not clear how is the culprit here. Maybe my version file
>    >> corrected but then all of my older files should be corrupted which I
>    >> find extremely odd.
>
>    > Do some command-line testing as suggested before by Ville.
>
>    > Apparently there's no authoritative online version of the rcs man
>    > pages, but
>    > http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/rcs/co.1.html
>    > should be good enough for your testing.
>
>    > co -pREV FILE
>    > will print revision REV of file FILE to stdout.
>
>
> Ok it does not work neither, that is I have 130 versions of that file

You can do better than that, Uwe :-)

- What happened.
- What you thought should have happened.
- Precisely what you were doing at the time.

> and can only visit the first 4 all other are reported as absent.

What does
C-x v l runs the command vc-print-log
report in any of the files under RCS?

On the command-line, what does
rlog FILE
report?

>
> So I conclude that somehow the version file ,v is corrupted. What

I hope not.

Are these text files (which EOL coding?) or binary files?

Adrian

> really puzzles me that this seems to hold for ALL version controlled
> files.
>
> So it seems not so much a xemacs problem but it is an extremely odd
> thing
>
> Uwe 
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