Re: parsing rcs file ? (branches)

[Ronald Petty]

Ya, I know what you are saying Larry, but to tell you the truth, I tried
to figure out (buy don't have time, several other people have the exact
same error I was getting, "forgot now what it was").  Besides trying to
figure out why it didn't work (CVSWEB said it didn't work basically), I
wanted to learn how to make my own so I am.

I will go back if I get the time and find the reason rlog fails
sometimes. (and if I can remember my original error)

Ron

On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 17:06, Larry Jones wrote:
> Ronald Petty writes:
> > 
> > Cvsweb is not easy to integrate and
> > uses rlog to parse RCS files, which fails sometimes (google, and in
> > practice).
> 
> rlog is part of RCS and thus uses the cannonical RCS file parser.  If it
> doesn't work, chances are it isn't broken, it's just not being used
> correctly.  I think your time would be better spent investigating why it
> fails rather than reinventing the wheel.  Especially since, if the
> problem *is* misuse, it will probably affect your code exactly the same
> way.
> 
> -Larry Jones
> 
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>