[p4] p4 verify fails after running cvs2p4

[Dave Birkhead]

Yes, this looks like an RCS problem.

I'd drop the author, Richard Geiger rmg at perfortify.com, a note about it. He is a great guy and whenever I've had problems with his scripts he has been very responsive. 

Good luck,

-Daveb

---- Smith, Jeff <jsmith at medplus.com> wrote:
>
> This is usually the result of non-standard RCS tags in the version
> files.  Some newer versions of CVS do this (i.e. CVSNT).  You either
> need to write some scripts to look for and remove these or modify cvs2p4
> to ignore them. 
> 
> Jeff
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of
> vegard.setrenes at telenor.com
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 4:13 AM
> To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: [p4] p4 verify fails after running cvs2p4
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> After running cvs2p4 (genmetadata, genchanges, dochanges and dolabels),
> which completed without any errors, I started up a Perforce instance
> using the output root folder from cvs2p4. So far so good, but when
> running a p4 verify I am getting a lot of these messages:
> 
> //depot/import/cvs/statistikk/main/IN/database/views.sql#3 - edit change
> 118 (ktext) 00000000000000000000000000000000 MISSING!
> //depot/import/cvs/statistikk/main/IN/database/views.sql#2 - edit change
> 109 (ktext) 00000000000000000000000000000000 MISSING!
> //depot/import/cvs/statistikk/main/IN/database/views.sql#1 - add change
> 50 (ktext) 00000000000000000000000000000000 MISSING!
> 
> A p4 print on the file results in this error message:
> Perforce server error:
>         Date 2007/01/16 10:02:36:
>         Operation: user-print
>         Librarian checkout
> depot/import/cvs/statistikk/IN/database/views.sql failed.
>         RCS parse error at line 32
>         expected desc
> //depot/import/cvs/statistikk/main/IN/database/views.sql#3 - edit change
> 118 (ktext) Date 2007/01/16 10:02:36:
> Operation: user-print
> Librarian checkout depot/import/cvs/statistikk/IN/database/views.sql
> failed. RCS parse error at line 32 expected desc
> 
> This has been the case with 2 of 12 cvs modules (10 modules were
> successfully migrated to perforce).
> 
> Do you know what causes these errors? Is the cvs repository corrupt? And
> - what can I do to fix it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Vegard
> 
> 
> 
> 
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