Re: - in filename?

[Aaron S. Hawley]

I don't use Redhat, nor ViewCVS, but RCS can definitely handle filenames
with dashes and underscores (even leading dashes provided a workaround of
"./-filename" is used).  Although not the usual practice, RCS's `rlog' is
able to print the log of a rudimentary RCS file created by CVS, also.

Try asking the ViewCVS people again.
/a

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Zac Elston wrote:

> following up on a bug I thought was in viewcvs I found this and believe it
> to be a bug in rcs.
>
>
>
> here's what I have
>
> rpm -qi rcs
> Name        : rcs                          Relocations: /usr
> Version     : 5.7                               Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
> Release     : 26                            Build Date: Tue 21 Sep 2004
> 05:49:31 AM EDT
> Install Date: Wed 06 Jul 2005 12:56:28 PM EDT      Build Host:
> tweety.build.redhat.com
> Group       : Development/Tools             Source RPM: rcs-5.7-26.src.rpm
> Size        : 494503                           License: GPL
> Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Wed 05 Jan 2005 04:35:14 PM EST, Key ID
> 219180cddb42a60e
> Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> Summary     : Revision Control System (RCS) file version management tools.
>
>
> Linux 2.6.9-5.EL #1 Wed Jan 5 19:22:18 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> (an up2date version of RHEL4)
>
>
>
> here's the problem description
> running rlog on a file with a _ or - in the name gives me
>
> "
> rlog: psi-profile.sh,v:16: unknown character `-'
> rlog aborted
> "
>
>
>
> line 16 reads..
>      16 filename^Iauto.psi-mounts;$
>
> this line "filename" only occurs in files that have changed or are not the
> initial import version in cvs
>
>
> here's a reproducable failure method:
>
> #touch test_file
> #cvs add test_file
> #cvs commit
>
>
> #rlog test_file,v
> rlog: test_file,v: warning: Unknown phrases like `deltatype ...;' are
> present.
> rlog: test_file,v:16: unknown character `_'
> rlog aborted
>
> thanks
> -zac

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