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Re: [ViewCVS-dev] Filename whitespace bug


From: Nick Papadonis
Subject: Re: [ViewCVS-dev] Filename whitespace bug
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 08:10:02 -0400
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Very insightful comments from Greg.  Does anyone have any thoughts on
filenames with whitespaces characters?

- Nick


On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:30:32PM -0400, Nick Papadonis wrote:
> 
> It appears ViewCVS has problems with filenames composed of
> whitespaces.  I think the problem is in 'loginfo-handler'.  More
>...
> Is this a bug in ViewCVS or CVS itself?  Did the CVS designers no
> envision whitespaces in filenames?

The latter: CVS is completely horked. It never dealt with the fact that
filenames might have spaces.

There is a patch in the SourceForge tracker (I believe) that tries to
compensate. But even that is going to be a heuristic: if you can't find the
file, then try to concatenate a couple arguments to see if the combination
is a legal file. etc.

[ maybe it can be more deterministic: if the files are passed with the ,v on
  the end, then you can assume any files *without* the ,v are the first word
  of a multi-word filename; I haven't looked into it ]

I don't have any particular timeframes on when I'll get a chance to dig into
this. I'd suggest trying out the patch from SourceForge and supply your
feedback to the address@hidden mailing list.

Cheers,
-g




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