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[Statcvs-users] How to use statcvs under windows?

[Mitja M. <mi...@mi...>]

Hi,

can you tell me the easiest way to use statcvs under
windows?

I copied and pasted wincvs' builtin log command output to
a file. Unfortunately the logfile format seems to be different
from what statcvs expects: 

     ERROR: Logfile parsing failed.
     line 1: expected 'RCS file: ' but found 'Rcs file : '

Does statcvs require a special CVS version?

Thank you for your help and your very interesting product.

Nice Greetings from Berlin (too),

Mitja Martini

Re: [Statcvs-users] How to use statcvs under windows?

[Richard C. <rc...@gm...>]

From: "Mitja Martini" <mi...@mi...>
> can you tell me the easiest way to use statcvs under
> windows?

For me, that would be CVSNT (as long as you don't need SSH access to the
repository, which is more complicated to configure). It works just as the
Unix version of CVS, from the command line.


> I copied and pasted wincvs' builtin log command output to
> a file. Unfortunately the logfile format seems to be different
> from what statcvs expects:
>
>      ERROR: Logfile parsing failed.
>      line 1: expected 'RCS file: ' but found 'Rcs file : '
>

Oh well. Yet another subtly different logfile format :-/

Short-term workaround: Search and replace in the logfile.

Long-term solution: Complain to the Wincvs people for being incompatible to
Unix CVS. ;-)

If you have a Wincvs logfile which has no secret information in it, I would
be happy if you could attach it to a bug report on our SourceForge project
page. Someone will add support for it to StatCvs.

And if you want to use the new CVSNT 2.x, you have to download a development
snapshot of StatCvs from [1] because CVSNT 2 introduced its own slightly
incompatible logfile format.


Hope that helps,
Richard

[1] http://page.inf.fu-berlin.de/~cyganiak/statcvs/v2.0-dev/