Re: [Gnu-arch-users] cscvs log parsing failure

[Florian Weimer]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 02:02:10AM +0200, Harald Meland wrote:

> If the numbers match, all is well, we can go ahead and split naively
> on the separator lines.
> 
> If the numbers don't match, the parser can fall back to doing
> 
>   for revision in revisions:
>       cvs -q log -N -r%(revision)s %(filename)s

This is extremely inefficient and usually kills inetd-based pservers.

> > Unfortunately, there isn't a command to suppress the log messages,
> > either.
> 
> I'm not following what you mean by that statement; the CVS log
> messages are fairly central to cscvs' operation.

The idea is to gather an authoritative list of revisions in the proper
order.