Rahul Bhargava on Evolphin & Technology

This bug and a proposed patch was submitted to the CVS community by me. It ran into religious hurdle w.r.t keyword storage in SCM repository, it has not yet been accepted by the CVS community but nevertheless has been available for download. Here is the original submission by me:

THE PROBLEM
The cvs server will automatically (or, more accurately, as part of the update run that automatically happens after a commit) expand valid keyword strings in a text file as part of the commit operation. In other words it is the responsibility of the ‘server-side’ of cvs to fill in the appropriate values for the RCS keywords.

Currently where this breaks down is when the end-user modifies the content of the RCS keywords. For example, let’s say a file contains:

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This bug was submitted to the CVS community by me and fairly quickly fixed. Here is the original submission:

The cvs1.12.13 tree’s zlib.c has compatability problems with several Java based cvs clients – SmartCVS, WANdisco, JetBrains Ideaj etc. This manifests via cvs commands will hang for some files. See the bundled test file (add.c from cvs src dir)

We have tested with cvs1.11 tree right upto 1.11.21 and has no problems interoperating with the cvs server’s zlib implementation.

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