Re: rlog missing desc keyword error

Thien-Thi Nguyen <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:58:49 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.version-control.rcs.bugs
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

() Tom Goodman <[email protected]>
() Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:42:20 -0500

   I am getting an odd error from rlog:

   tgoodman@bakedpotatoe //notsure/cvs/MHPro
   $ rlog Makefile,v

   rlog: Makefile,v:439: missing `desc' keyword
   rlog aborted

That comma-v file has a format that rlog (from GNU RCS 5.8) does not
understand, perhaps because it was created by CVS.  5.8 is more strict
about the format (see rcsfile(5)), and got confused by:

  deltatype	text;
  kopt	kLv;
  permissions	666;
  commitid	16846ddc38e5e29;
  filename	Makefile;

starting at line 440.  Can you use "cvs log" instead?