cvs status format

[Derek R. Price]

Anyone have an opinion on this issue?

    http://ccvs.cvshome.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=28

It's about reworking the cvs status format to be more easily parsable by
scripts while keeping the output human readable and without resorting to
anything so cumbersome as XML.  Backwards compatibly, of course, but
I was wondering if anyone knew what had been done about odd characters
with other applications in similar situations?

Derek

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