cvs commit: src UPDATING
Colin Percival
cperciva at freebsd.org
Sun Oct 30 18:47:26 PST 2005
Bill Fenner wrote:
> This happens when there is any commit message that contains the "cvs log"
> "end-of-logs" line, [snip]
>
> This is a single entry, but there's no way to know that just
> parsing this output.
>
> cvsweb could just wait for eof, and not try to use the ===== line to
> mark the end, but that would result in some more confused states since
> it'll have two records of revision 1.372.
Thanks for explaining this -- I've been wondering about it for a long time.
Is this something which could be reposurgically corrected? I used to find
that cvsweb was very helpful in preparing security advisories, but not any
more.
Colin Percival
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