Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 13:18:22 +0900 From: YONETANI Tomokazu <qhwt+fbsd@les.ath.cx> To: remko@FreeBSD.org Cc: mux@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, jdp@polstra.com Subject: Re: bin/117831: csup is incompatible WRT handling unknown RCS keywords Message-ID: <20071205041822.GA67287@les.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <200711051747.lA5HlP3l050792@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200711051747.lA5HlP3l050792@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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.
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