Re: Trouble outdating revisions

[Paul Eggert]

Romain Francoise <address@hidden> writes:

> a Debian user reported that when you try to outdate the 1.1 revision, it
> remains in the RCS file and doesn't actually get deleted.

Yes; that's a bug; thanks for reporting it.

> ,----
> | --- rcs-5.7/src/rcs.c       1995-06-16 08:19:24.000000000 +0200
> | +++ rcs-5.7/src/rcs.c       2005-05-16 18:52:42.000000000 +0200
> | @@ -897,6 +897,9 @@
> |     struct hshentry const *nextdelta;
> |     struct cbuf cb;
> |  
> | +   if (!delta)
> | +           return;
> | +
> |     for (;;) {
> |             foutptr = 0;
> |             if (eoflex()) {
> `----

Thanks for reporting this bug as well.  However, that patch doesn't
look right: delta==NULL is supposed to cause it to scan the rest of
the file.