Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:37:04 +0900 From: YONETANI Tomokazu <qhwt+fbsd@les.ath.cx> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/117831: csup is incompatible WRT handling unknown RCS keywords Message-ID: <20071224053704.GA28340@les.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20071205041822.GA67287@les.ath.cx> References: <200711051747.lA5HlP3l050792@freefall.freebsd.org> <20071205041822.GA67287@les.ath.cx>
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 01:18:22PM +0900, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 05:47:25PM +0000, remko@FreeBSD.org wrote: > > Over to maintainer. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=117831 > > Ok, obviously I overlooked at what's written in TODO file: > > BUGS: > : > - Add missing support for supfile keywords and add sanity checks for > some of them. Also, we're not supposed to choke on unknown keywords > to stay in line with CVSup, which just ignores them in order to > maintain compatibility with sup configuration files. > > so the author had already identified this problem far before I poked at him. > > IMHO, ignoring an unknown keyword(a newphrase) is just OK, as long as it > spews a warning. As many existing RCS/CVS tools are designed to behave > this way anyway, one won't (can't) add a newphrase which requires older > applications to upgrade and support it to operate on the new repository > properly. Apparently both authors are ignoring ME instead of unknown keywords... Maybe I can work on a patch for CVSup to add support for commitid instead, but I fear no one takes care of it. Thank you for your time and attention.
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