Re: cvswrappers questions

[Eric Siegerman]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:21:22PM -0400, Larry Jones wrote:
> Eric Siegerman writes:
> >  
> > It'd be nice if CVS were more forgiving (i.e. if it reduced the
> > error to a warning if it was in an entry that's not triggered by
> > the current operation).
> 
> Unfortunately, at the time the error is detected, CVS has no idea
> whether that particular entry is going to end up being used or not.

Darn.  Well, a possible kludge would be to have the parser emit
its message as a warning, and set an "invalid-entry" flag in the
WrapperEntry structure.  Then, if something tries to use that
WrapperEntry (i.e. if it ever matches a file), that triggers the
fatal error.

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