Re: RFC: New Response type to aid rlog reponse parsing

patrick keshishian <[email protected]> Sat, 4 Nov 2017 10:24:45 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.general
Message-ID <CAN0yQBrry2DTuGRpWirNm48peyj6ijLatjQ7=b9++tthfatH+w@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Thorsten,

On 11/4/17, Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>I have documented this [1] for interested parties. It is a rather
>>long-ish document. I have done my best to organize the information for
>>easy digestion and reference.
>
> how interesting. I=E2=80=99ve added a =E2=80=9Ccvs suck=E2=80=9D command =
to the 1.12 flavour
> shipped with MirBSD and Debian (current de-facto =E2=80=9Cupstream=E2=80=
=9D of GNU
> CVS as I seem to be the only one working on it) to download individual
> ,v files, but that would of course only work if the server supports it.
>
>>Attached is a patch implementing LOGM change against cvs-1.11.23
>
> I=E2=80=99ve looked at it and it=E2=80=99s trivial and probably correct e=
nough,
> so I=E2=80=99ll patch my 1.12 branch similarily and add to the (in)=E2=80=
=9Csanity=E2=80=9D
> testsuite. Then you=E2=80=99ll only have to convince the OpenCVS maintain=
ers
> to adapt (if it still exists, that is, haven=E2=80=99t checked) and every=
one
> is compatible.

Thanks for the quick response and vote of confidence.

As far as I can tell OpenCVS has been pretty dormant. I was going to
give them a heads up after getting a feel for the reception of this
change by CVS proper.

Cheers,
--patrick

p.s., sorry about my gmail address :(


> Thanks,
> //mirabilos
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>     to not reach me, or only delayed by up to several weeks.
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>
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