RE: Patch for making CommitID configurable

2005-04-28 Thread Torsten Martinsen
Mark D. Bausche wrote: There are a number of tools and utilities that use RCS which may have problems: ViewCVS CVSWeb SmartCVS TortoiseCVS but I suspect that all of them have already run across the CVSNT commitid and are handling it correctly. Indeed, TortoiseCVS is designed

cvs abusing stderr?

2005-04-28 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, Any special reason why cvs prints a list of cvs server: Updating modulename on stderr instead of stdout? This is surely just a log message, which is supposed to be printed on stdout. On a huge project the _real_ error messages are hidden between all the garbage. It would be

RE: cvs abusing stderr?

2005-04-28 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Harald Dunkel wrote: Any special reason why cvs prints a list of cvs server: Updating modulename on stderr instead of stdout? This is surely just a log message, which is supposed to be printed on stdout. On a huge project the _real_ error messages are hidden between all the

Re: cvs abusing stderr?

2005-04-28 Thread Harald Dunkel
Jim.Hyslop wrote: I can't comment on why these messages go to stderr instead of stdout, but I will mention that the global -q flag suppresses them. I use '-q' so much it's in my .cvsrc file ;-) I have seen -q and -Q, but I don't want to suppress these messages completely. They should just

Re: cvs abusing stderr?

2005-04-28 Thread gnu-cvs
Just to prevent an out-of-the-brain change: if they would we sent to stdout, this would break at least SmartCVS. -- Best regards, Thomas Singer _ smartcvs.com Harald Dunkel schrieb: Jim.Hyslop wrote: I can't comment on why these messages go to stderr instead of stdout, but I will