[cvsnt] Re: CVSNT 2.0.34 puts extra info in RCS files that CVSGraph does not like...

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Mon Apr 5 12:59:22 BST 2004


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On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 18:58:12 +0200, Bo Berglund
<bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 10:50:55 +0100, Tony Hoyle <tmh at nodomain.org>
>wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 19:43:22 +0200, Bo Berglund
>><bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote:
>>
>>The @ characters are necessary when then username contains
>>non-alphanumeric tokens.  It's actually an error in the original RCS
>>specs - they treated the author name as a token which fails horribly
>>if the name has a space or several other characters in it (@, ;, a few
>>others).
>
>If I look closely in the RCS example submitted by the ViewCvs poster I
>find this:
>
>date	2004.03.26.13.23.19;	author @chris.bridges@;	state Exp;
>
>Does this imply that . is one of the "special" characters???
>
Technically, yes (it's not a valid token character).

Really it's irrelevant though - the RCS wrappers are the only safe way
to access the repository these days, as there may be binary deltas,
compressed deltas, new -k options, etc.

Tony




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