Re: Ineroperability problem with Tortoise CVS

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Mike Pumford <address@hidden> writes:

> Just spotted a slight interoperability problem
> with Tortoise CVS and CVS 1.12.9. The new date
> formatting code confuses the Tortoise cvs log
> output parsing code as the new local time
> formatting of dates end up using - to separate
> the year/month/day fields instead of the / used
> in older versions of CVS.

Hmmm... this is part of the move to ISO 8601 time
specifications. If the client does not handle MT
formats, then the times will all be in UTC, but
are now in ISO 8601 rather than yyyy/mm/dd format.

> The TortoiseCVS Version is 1.6.14 which has a
> CVSNT version of 2.0.41a.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to persuade CVS
> 1.12.9 to output dates in the old format?

Not without hacking the source code.

You may wish to file a bug report with the
Tortoise CVS folks and/or CVSNT folks.

For now, you will probably need to go in and hack
the src/main.c::format_time_t() and
src/main.c:gmformat_time_t() functions by hand.

        -- Mark
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