Re: user names gets the first the characters chopped off

[Ask Bjoern Hansen]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:

> I am using the CVS that comes with the latest FreeBSD (--version
> says 1.11) plus the attached patch.
>
> Some users (3 out of 7) gets (once in a while) the first two
> characters of their username shopped out.
>
> The CVS_USER_NAME variable the patch sets is okay, but the username
> used in $Id:'s and such are borken. (See example below).

Grrh; the patch at http://www.cvshome.org/dev/patches/user is
broken.  The attached works better. (Robert Spier <robert@perl.org>
fixed it up).  I've also put it at
http://develooper.com/code/cvs/cvs.user.patch


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