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Date:      Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:47:00 -0800
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>, Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src UPDATING
Message-ID:  <436585A4.6020008@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200510310139.j9V1dZ3i025712@bright.research.att.com>
References:  <200510280258.j9S2wpmL058704@repoman.freebsd.org> <20051030194833.GA2699@heff.fud.org.nz> <20051030224106.GC891@zaphod.nitro.dk> <200510310139.j9V1dZ3i025712@bright.research.att.com>

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Bill Fenner wrote:
> This happens when there is any commit message that contains the "cvs log"
> "end-of-logs" line, [snip]
> 
> This is a single entry, but there's no way to know that just
> parsing this output.
> 
> cvsweb could just wait for eof, and not try to use the ===== line to
> mark the end, but that would result in some more confused states since
> it'll have two records of revision 1.372.

Thanks for explaining this -- I've been wondering about it for a long time.

Is this something which could be reposurgically corrected?  I used to find
that cvsweb was very helpful in preparing security advisories, but not any
more.

Colin Percival



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