Re: Tip: restoring your CVS access to savannah

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 08:11:00 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> cc: address@hidden
> 
> >>     address@hidden:/cvsroot/emacs
> >> 
> >>            ^^^^
> 
> >Yeah, and then get used to the gobbledygook it prints on every
> >commit...
> 
> You mean,
> 
>     cvs commit: Using deprecated info format strings.  Convert your scripts to
>     use the new argument format and remove '1's from your info file format
>     strings.
> 
> ?

Yes.

> Does "info" mean info, as in info pages?  Probably not.  But it's
> something that's got "format strings" of one kind or another.  I
> wonder what "scripts" are meant, because I didn't use any, having
> merely typed "cvs commit programs.texi".

The scripts in question are scripts used by the CVS server on
savannah, the page that you cited explains that.  The savannah
maintainers said simply to disregard these messages, as they will go
away when they (the maintainers) fix those scripts at some later date.