Re: CVS commit with no newline in the editor

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Chiu, Kent <address@hidden> writes:

> We are trying to upgrade our CVS to v1.11.17. We found out that there
> is a different behavior in the way cvs does commit.
> 
> In the previous version, commit will bring up an editor with a newline
> before
> the "CVS: ..." line. In v1.11.17, it does not have the newline.
> 
> I have tried to compile on both Redhat9 and Fedora but both have the same
> behavior. I am not sure what I am missing. Looking at the cvs code,
> logmsg.c,
> it looks like it can easily be fixed by adding a "\n" in front of
> "%s--------------------....".
> But I am not sure if it is the correct way to fix.
> 
> Is there any flags or compiler options that I should use to get the
> behavior of having a newline in the commit log entry?

Just add an extra newline to the file specified by your rcsinfo file.

        -- Mark
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