Re: CVS repository invalid revision

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 03:13:24PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
>
> > I'm running a conversion of PostgreSQL's CVS repository, but I'm
> > stuck on a revision that cscvs fails to parse. The hint that the error
> > gives me is:
> >
> > Parser error: failed to parse revision data line (line: 'date: 2000/12/04 01:20:38; author: tgl; state: Exp; lines:
> > ')
> >
> > That's the literal output -- I'm not sure what the linebreak after
> > "lines:" means.
> >
> > Can someone help me out by finding and fixing the corrupted revision?
> > I"d be most grateful.
>
> There's no corrupted revision -- the text you see is part of a log
> message, not a real header line. So the cscvs tool would seem to
> need to be able to cope with that. The complete entry (this is from
> contrib/pgcrypto/md5.c, but there are several more files touched by this
> commit) is this:
>
> revision 1.3
> date: 2001-01-09 13:07:13 -0300; author: momjian; state: Exp; lines: +16 -16;
> The KAME files md5.* and sha1.* have the following changelog
> entry:
>
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.2
> date: 2000/12/04 01:20:38; author: tgl; state: Exp; lines:
> +18 -18
> Eliminate some of the more blatant platform-dependencies ... it
> builds here now, anyway ...
> ----------------------------

Wow, that's very interesting. Thanks for pointing it out; now that I
have this in hand, I need to chase somebody interested in fixing a cscvs
bug <wink>
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