[cvsnt] Re: cvs diff -I broken in 2.0.51

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Tue Aug 3 18:36:51 BST 2004


On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:06:36 -0400, "Mark Levedahl" <noone at nospam.net>
wrote:

>cvs diff -Ifoo should suppress any diff lines containing 'foo' (which can be
>a regular expression). This works fine in 2.0.35, does not work in 2.0.51a,
>have no idea what version actually broke it.
>
>Example of current symptoms:
>
>cvs diff -Ifoo  suppresses everything if foo is not matched.
>cvs diff -Ifoo causes a crash in cvs if foo is matched.
>
It seems to be a bug in the regexp library.  That's deep voodoo that
I'm not touching with a bargepole... best to wait until a fixed
version of that comes out.  since -I isn't a documented option this
isn't really an issue.

Tony




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