[cvsnt] FW: RCS format question

Fabio D'Alfonso fabio.dalfonso at fabiodalfonso.com
Tue Dec 16 13:59:05 GMT 2008


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-----Original Message-----
From: Fabio D'Alfonso [mailto:fabio.dalfonso at fabiodalfonso.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:26 PM
To: 'Tony Hoyle'
Subject: RE: [cvsnt] RCS format question

Hi,
for moment I removed cvsnt and put back cvs.
Because I use smartcvs ans client this actually comes to be transparent. 

Thanks


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-----Original Message-----
From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of
Tony Hoyle
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 1:23 PM
To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook
Subject: Re: [cvsnt] RCS format question

Fabio D'Alfonso wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried first yesterday to use a native cvsnt repository with bonsai and I
> got the following message:
> 
>  
> Unexpected parsing error in RCS file .
> Expected token: date, but saw: text
> 
>  
> 
> Before starting any investigation I would know if the RCS format is
> different in native repositories, respect to the cvs 1.11 (it worked on a
> cvs 1.11 repository).
> 
We do stick to the RCS spec except with respect to binary deltas and 
extra expansion options (the latter shouldn't really affect a parser, 
but may affect the rendering of the final file).

However some RCS parsers are very inflexible with regards to the exact 
format, especially the parsing of new keywords, of which we use several.

As Arthur said in this case it's best to use the cvsnt rcs wrappers to 
parse the file, which will always give you the correct result.  Ideally 
don't use tools that try to parse the RCS files directly as these are 
prone to breakage.

Tony
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