Re: rlog missing desc keyword error

Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:38:00 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.rcs.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12/26/11 20:58, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> 5.8 is more strict about the format (see rcsfile(5))...
> Can you use "cvs log" instead?

I don't see any reason why rlog can't grok CVS-generated
,v files.  CVS's ,v format was created in consultation with
the RCS developers, and I don't see any reason why the two
packages should stop being interoperable.  If the RCS 5.8
parser is stricter than the 5.7 parser, and if this is causing
problems with reading CVS files, that suggests that there's
a problem in the 5.8 parser.