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From: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org>
To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
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Subject: Re: cvsweb links in cvs commit messages
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Hi,

At Fri, 25 Aug 2000 08:31:22 +1200,
Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2000, at 13:22, Bill Fenner wrote:
> 
> > I thought ?rev=. and ?rev=HEAD worked, but I guess not.
> 
> Correct, it doesn't work.
> 
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/textproc/sgmltools-lite/Makefile?rev=HEAD
> 
> Error: Malformed query "rev=HEAD" 

Ok, I'll commit the fix that allows one to use a tag name for rev.

> > Prepending the magic value ~checkout~/ to the path works.
> > 
> > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/bin/chmod/chmod.1

Thanks for the tip, Bill!  This is hacky but a workaround for now.

> My use of ~checkout~/ doesn't give what I would expect:
> 
> ###
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/ports/textproc/sgmltools-lite/Makefile
> 
> Error: Unexpected output from cvs co: 
(snip)
> ###

Is it intentional to request a file that does not exist?  The file
ports/textproc/sgmltools-lite/Makefile is removed at HEAD.


I have to admit that cvsweb needs more error checks.  It is a problem
to be solved in the future.

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