cvsweb will not work like before :(

[Claudiu Costin]

      Dear Ville,

  Thank you very much. I can't wait to see the feature working
again. Please give me a sign (a patch) when  it's done. I'm
subscribed on the list.

On Sîmbătă 16 Octombrie 2004 14:32, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 00:12, Jon Noack wrote:
> 
> > > For example in my PHP script I have the following printf() like string
> > > variable:
> > >   $cvswebformat2="http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/kde-i18n/%s?rev=%s&content-type=text/plain";
> > > where first "%s" is like fr/kdeadmin/kcron.po, and second "%s" is branch
> > > like KDE_3_3_BRANCH or HEAD.
> > 
> > Actually, it works fine for "HEAD" or ".".  According to the Changelog,
> > this functionality was "resurrected" on 2004-04-20.  However, other
> > branches/tags I tried did not work.
> 
> Right.  It "works" for HEAD, because the requested tag/branch seems to
> be ignored altogether, and the magic revision "." currently results in
> -rHEAD being passed to "cvs co".
> 
> I already started enhancing the "." revision so that it takes the branch
> into account, it seems to work pretty ok here.  But there's a catch:
> https://ccvs.cvshome.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=211
> 
> What the above means is that before one can do a "cvs co -p" using a
> branch name (ie. -rBRANCH, == "latest on branch BRANCH"), BRANCH needs
> to be in CVSROOT/val-tags.  "cvs co -p" does not put it there, but "cvs
> co" (without -p) does -> someone has to do the latter outside of cvsweb
> before it starts to work in it :(  Additionally, the error messages from
> "cvs co -p" for nonexistent tags/branches are, well, non-obvious.  This
> is as of cvs 1.11.17.
> 
> I think I'll commit this stuff anyway today.  If the above bug 211
> doesn't get fixed in cvs soonish and this starts to cause problems, I'll
> take a look at changing "cvs co" to checkout into a temporary file in
> cvsweb, then operating on that instead of directly using the STDOUT from
> "cvs co -p".  That might not be a bad idea in the first place, BTW.
> 
> 

kind regards,
-- 
Claudiu Costin, claudiuc at kde.org
Linux-KDE Romania http://www.ro.kde.org