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Re: Antwort: Re: cvs2svn.py fails converting repository with the attached file

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-06-27 17:14:16 CEST

Markus.Gebhardt@etas.de writes:
> Speaking of the RCSfile author definition, does the skript handle strings
> as authors?
> CVSNT "extends" the RCS file definition in a way that author names with
> special characters (spaces, dots etc.)
> are allowed and then quoted by "@"s, thus, speaking in the RCSfile syntax,
> allowing strings as author names, not only id's.
>
> Does the conversion skript handle this or does it keep straight to the RCS
> file definition?
> (the file that started the discussion did not treat the author name
> containing a space as a string, I know)
> I'd think that dome of the repositories out there might be cvsnt
> repositories, and may contain stuff like this.

cvs2svn depends on the rcsparse library from ViewCVS

   cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.viewcvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/viewcvs \
       co viewcvs/lib/vclib/ccvs/rcsparse

which I'm pretty sure does not support the extended RCS file
definition. Maybe it should, but then we'd probably also have to get
an improved version of RCS 'co', or find some other means to obtain
specific revisions from a ,v file...

Please make a note in issue #1374 about this, if you have time, thanks.

-Karl

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