Re: a test of converting to subversion
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 06:44:14PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Denis Barbier wrote:
> > Translated manuals rely on cvs revision numbers, as with boot-floppies,
> > so this change will be pretty painful here. I see 2 solutions:
> > a) Automatically replace cvs revision numbers of original files in
> > translated documents with svn revision numbers. Not sure if this
> > can be done.
> > b) Or generate a list of revision numbers for each files of the
> > original manual when it is switched to svn (it should be doable,
> > but no idea how). Translators could first update their translated
> > documents to the final cvs HEAD (yes, after the switch to svn,
> > which means that cvs must not be disabled), then import their
> > translations into svn, and in each file replace cvs revision
> > numbers by svn ones at switching time.
>
> Is this used by doc-check or something else? doc-check seems to be
> broken in cvs (and svn) -- just look at line 55.
It is indeed badly broken ;)
I just fixed it, but AFAICT translators did fill in cvs revision
numbers in their translated documents, even if they could not yet
take full advantage of them, so I still believe that this is an
issue.
Denis
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