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I am trying to migrate my repository from cvs to git using cvs2git but it fails when corrupt files are found. Is there anyway I can find corrupt files in CVS beforehand?

Command used : 

cvs2git --blobfile=blobfilename --dumpfile=dumpfilename --retain-conflicting-attic-files --use-cvs --fallback-encoding=ascii -vvv --username=cvs2svn RepositoryPath

Output : 

ERROR filename,v is not a valid ,v file
Mort
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try using /usr/bin/rcs I used it to read all the ,v files beforehand to locate any ,v files which are corrupt

MyDeveloperDay
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    Trouble is, this is effectively what the first stage of cvs2git does, so you're not really saving any time. Though I guess it will save you having to restart every time you find corruption as you would in cvs2git. – Mort Nov 07 '17 at 03:32
  • There are 100's of repositories which are to be converted. I want to run rcs on all these at one shot and fetch the corrupt ones :) Thanks MyDeveloperDay and Mort – Arjun Nov 12 '17 at 03:16
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    I found when running cvs2git that it wasn't until a later stage that the corruptions were found so sometimes I'd waste hours rerunning the conversion only for it to fail at the next file, so I found it easier to write a script that basic did find . -name '*,v' -print -exec rcs {} \; – MyDeveloperDay Nov 16 '17 at 19:00