Re: CVS commit with no newline in the editor

[Chiu, Kent]

Mark D. Baushke wrote:

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> Chiu, Kent <address@hidden> writes:
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> > We are trying to upgrade our CVS to v1.11.17. We found out that there
> > is a different behavior in the way cvs does commit.
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> > In the previous version, commit will bring up an editor with a newline
> > before
> > the "CVS: ..." line. In v1.11.17, it does not have the newline.
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> > I have tried to compile on both Redhat9 and Fedora but both have the same
> > behavior. I am not sure what I am missing. Looking at the cvs code,
> > logmsg.c,
> > it looks like it can easily be fixed by adding a "\n" in front of
> > "%s--------------------....".
> > But I am not sure if it is the correct way to fix.
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> > Is there any flags or compiler options that I should use to get the
> > behavior of having a newline in the commit log entry?
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> Just add an extra newline to the file specified by your rcsinfo file.
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Hi Mark,

Thank you for replying so quickly.

I am sorry, I am new to CVS. We don't really use rcsinfo file. We 
basically use a plain CVS
functionality and use all the default settings that come from the CVS 
distribution.

From the CVS documentation, it looks like rcsinfo file should contain a 
rule set. I am not
familiar with this file.

Also, how can we make it applied globally to all newly created projects 
instead of individually
customizing the newline behavior? I mean, without having to edit the 
rcsinfo file on every
project.

Thanks,
Kent