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Re: CVS repository damaged or bug in cvsweb?
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>
- To: Dave Korn <dk at artimi dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, overseers at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:05:49 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: CVS repository damaged or bug in cvsweb?
- References: <NUTMEGu4ifJ2dSWUzwF00000a2d@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
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> http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/gcc/config/i386/i386.c
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> Does anyone know why does this file only have a history going back to
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> Revision 1.659 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs] , Tue Mar 16
> 20:37:18 2004 UTC (4 months ago) by bonzini
That would be bug 11335. cvsweb appears to work by parsing the cvs log
output. Because log messages are free-form and can contain arbitrary
binary data, in particular data that looks just like the headings and
dividers generated by cvs log, this cannot work in general and certain log
messages confuse cvsweb. The only robust way of doing things is to parse
the ,v file directly rather than trying to parse the output of cvs log.
I don't know whether more recent versions of cvsweb, or alternatives to
cvsweb, do things properly.
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