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Re: edit -m messages logged
From: |
Amit Uttamchandani |
Subject: |
Re: edit -m messages logged |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:13:50 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 09:32:35PM +1100, Arthur Barrett wrote:
> Amit,
>
> > CVSNT package is no longer maintained by Debian [1] since it is no
> > longer "Free Software."
> >
>
> Thanks for the link.
>
> Of course it's still free software. Debian were maintaining their own
> fork, and had their own copy of the code. Nothing changed for them and
> their code had all the security udpates.
Thanks for clarifying. Do you happen to have the link for the Debian
CVSNT package?
>
> > In this case, the *,v* file was useless since rlog failed to parse the
> > information.
>
> CVSNT supplied it's own rlog for this reason.
>
Aah, understood.
> > Specifically there is a *filename* keyword
>
> That'd be the name of the file at each revision. If you rename a file
> (which CVSNT can do, but CVS cannot) then it's important to know the
> name at each revision. By removing information from the RCS file you
> are simply removing information from your repository history - that
> information was valuable and cannot be replaced.
>
Understood. So in a case like ours where we had to migrate from CVSNT to
CVS, what could have been a better option? If CVS doesn't support the
*keyword* directive then I guess it was ok to remove it from the ,v file
right?
Thank you for the valuable information,
Amit