cvs commit: src UPDATING

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Sun Oct 30 18:47:26 PST 2005


Bill Fenner wrote:
> This happens when there is any commit message that contains the "cvs log"
> "end-of-logs" line, [snip]
> 
> This is a single entry, but there's no way to know that just
> parsing this output.
> 
> cvsweb could just wait for eof, and not try to use the ===== line to
> mark the end, but that would result in some more confused states since
> it'll have two records of revision 1.372.

Thanks for explaining this -- I've been wondering about it for a long time.

Is this something which could be reposurgically corrected?  I used to find
that cvsweb was very helpful in preparing security advisories, but not any
more.

Colin Percival


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