On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> wrote:
starting at line 440. Can you use "cvs log" instead?
No, not easily.
The call to rlog is inside viewvc (running in standalone mode). viewvc is working from the repository, not from the cvs sandbox, so a re-write to use cvs log instead is beyond my ability.
The offending keywords in the ,v files are from a time when our cvs repository was using CVSNT as the cvs server. We are now using gnu cvs under ubuntu as our cvs server. The change over from CVSNT to gnu cvs did require some changes to the ,v files in the repository to strip out some of the CVSNT extras, but we did not kill everything that CVSNT added, just the minimum required to make it work.
I am going to try stripping out all of the CVSNT extension keywords from our repository. I am pretty sure that this will work for me. We can do this as we no longer rely on the CVSNT extensions. If there are people using viewvc with a CVSNT repository, they will not be able to just strip out the extension keywords.
The resolution for this bug report rests on deciding if rlog will error out on non-canonical keywords, or silently ignore them.
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