Re: invalid END header (bad central directory offset)

On 02/25/2014 01:49 PM, Edmond Chouaffe wrote:
> I just converted a Java project from CVS to GIT, and since then I
> receive the following error: error reading commons-logging.jar; invalid
> END header (bad central directory offset).
> 
> Does anyone know how to get rid of the error?

The most likely cause of your problem is that the file was not marked as
binary in CVS.  Non-binary files in CVS are subject to end-of-line
translation (especially noticeable under Windows) and keyword expansion
when they are checked out.  Such things will corrupt a JAR file.

But before you proceed, please ensure that the file is correct when
checked out of CVS.  Often people notice corruption after the conversion
that was already present before.

Then make sure that the file is marked as binary in CVS.  This should
usually fix the problem.

If not, you might want to look at "Prepping your repository" [1] in the
docs, "How do I fix up end-of-line translation problems?" [2] in the
FAQ, and the file doc/properties.txt [3] in the cvs2svn source tree.

Michael

[1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2svn.html#prep
[2] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/faq.html#eol-fixup
[3]
http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/source/browse/cvs2svn/trunk/doc/properties.txt?view=markup

-- 
Michael Haggerty
[email protected]
http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/

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