Re: parsing loginfo

[David Taylor]

The question sounds familiar, though I'm not sure since I don't pay much
attention  to 'space in filename' problems. Maybe
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/info-cvs/2001-August/018969.html has what you
need.

dtayl


Rob Helmer wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 03:58:03PM -0500, Larry Jones wrote:
> > Rob Helmer writes:
> > >
> > > All the info I want is actually in %s. Anyone have examples where
> > > they have successfully parsed this data if it contains spaces
> > > in the subdirs leading to the filename and/or the filename itself?
> >
> > Just one more reason why rational people don't use filenames with spaces
>
> :)
>
> > in them.  ;-)  If you haven't also used commas in your filenames, you
> > can use %{sV} or %{sv} and look for the comma between the filename and
> > the version number to determine the end of the filename.
>
> Thanks for the info, I'm already doing that part.
>
> I've noticed the main problem though is that I can't tell the
> directory apart from the filename, see this example of %s output
> where the dir is named "blah test" and the file is named "space file.txt" :
>
> sandbox/blah test space file.txt
>
> Nasty. I don't really see a way around that.
>
> What I'd like to do is this : when a file is committed, I want
> to get the full path w/ filename, current revision, previous revision
> and run a diff to put up on a webpage.
>
> This works great except for a space issue like the one above.
>
> I don't think I can get people to stop using spaces in filenames
> for this particular repository, but I guess I could workaround by
> not allowing spaces in dir names and in my loginfo parsing script
> split on the first space I see. Ack.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob Helmer
> Namodn
>
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