bin/117831: csup is incompatible WRT handling unknown RCS keywords

[YONETANI Tomokazu]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 01:18:22PM +0900, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 05:47:25PM +0000, remko at 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.

Apparently both authors are ignoring ME instead of unknown keywords...
Maybe I can work on a patch for CVSup to add support for commitid instead,
but I fear no one takes care of it.

Thank you for your time and attention.