Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] pika escaping corrupts taglines containing "

[Colin Walters]

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 11:32 -0400, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 01:37:08AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps we should modify new clients to update the .archive-version
> > file on any archive transaction if it's format version 2, and change
> > it to 3? Ugly, but I don't see a better solution...
> 
> If the issue is primarily committing stuff that another client can't
> safely read, rather than a true archive format change (e.g. something
> you'd see affecting 'archive-mirror'), perhaps putting that version in
> a patch-log header might be a good idea.

Yes, I suggested exactly that in the part you removed from quoting.