Re: rlog complains about commitids from CVS

Thien-Thi Nguyen <[email protected]> Wed, 19 May 2010 15:32:21 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.version-control.rcs.bugs
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() Bruno Haible <[email protected]>
() Sun, 16 May 2010 15:05:12 +0200

     $ rlog config.rpath,v > /dev/null 
     rlog: config.rpath,v: warning: Unknown phrases like `commitid ...;' are present.

   I would suggest to ignore this phrase without a warning.
   Here is a proposed patch: [...]

Thanks for proposing that patch.  I'm interested in any problems
you might find from building/using the in-progress RCS.

Please see savannah RCS source repo (git) commit
c09a6eee509d780f7f9dbe195b412d2a91e01896
"Recognize ‘commitid SYMBOL’ in RCS file delta tree."

Also of interest would probably be commit
afe9f37085153699e8a771dbacfe1c945c19af56
"Freeze RCS file syntax; drop ‘newphrase’ support."

The first one does what your patch does, while also ensuring that the
commitid is saved (pass-through) for some increased interoperability.

The second does away with "unknown phrases" slack altogether.

thi