Re: [Savannah-help-public] address@hidden: Re: Tip: restoring your CVS access to savannah]

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

I had written a bit of info about that in the news item about the CVS
changes. This can be ignored.

This means I upgraded the default CVS repositories config, that our
log_accum script is using old-style loginfo syntax, which will be
forsaken sometimes in the future.

I'm already working on this; I should be able to merge our version of
log_accum with the upstream one (included with CVS) at the same time,
as you suggested a few weeks ago.

-- 
Sylvain

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 09:58:36PM -0500, Richard M. Stallman wrote:
> Do you know what it means when cvs gives this output?
> 
>     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.
> 
> Can you help him?
> 
> 
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> 
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:16:31 +0000 (GMT)
> >> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> >> 
> >> all I had to do to get my access working again was to change my
> >> ...../CVS/Root files from:
> >> 
> >>     address@hidden:/cvsroot/emacs
> >> 
> >> to:
> >> 
> >>     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.
> 
> ?  It's not a very good warning message.  The verb "using" doesn't have a
> subject, and it's difficult to guess.  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".  I wonder what
> "argument" has a new format, and it would be interesting to know what the
> old format is too.  "Remove my '1's"?  "From my info file format
> strings"?
> Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)