[cvsnt] Which program removes the "CVS:"?

[Mitch Davis]

Hello CVS users,

I'm having trouble with TortoiseCVS checkin
messages.  In particular, with removal of lines
starting with "CVS:".

With either Unix CVS or CVSNT, checking in a file
without a log message causes an editor invocation.
On exit from the editor, lines starting with "CVS:"
are removed from the log message before the message
is sent to the server.

Using either Unix CVS and CVSNT to check in a
file with -m does NOT cause the "CVS:" lines to be
removed.  Maybe this is by design.

When checking in files with TortoiseCVS, the
checkin dialog shows the CVS: lines.  These
CVS: lines are NOT removed when it calls CVSNT,
for example:

  In C:\Design\test: "E:\Program Files\CVSNT\cvs.exe" -q commit -m "CVS:
Extel Commit Messages
  CVS:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  CVS: You must enter an issue number (eg TT1234) or a project billing code 
  CVS: (eg P2740) along with the the task name on this line:
  P0010 CVS Maintenance
  Fourth test." mjd/1999.txt
  CVSROOT=:ext:cvssrv:/home/cvs

And thus the CVS: lines get sent to the server
and added to the history for this file.  Urgh.

How can I prevent this?  Is TortoiseCVS responsible
for fully removing the CVS: lines before passing
them to the CVSNT client?

For what it's worth, I think TortoiseCVS is removing
*some* of the CVS: lines, but not all.  Here's the
template message in the dialog:

> CVS: Extel Commit Messages
> CVS:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
> CVS: You must enter an issue number (eg TT1234) or a project billing code 
> CVS: (eg P2740) along with the the task name on this line:

And here's the log message when I do a checkin using
the CVSNT command-line client:

> CVS: Extel Commit Messages
> CVS:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
> CVS: You must enter an issue number (eg TT1234) or a project billing code 
> CVS: (eg P2740) along with the the task name on this line:
> CVS:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
> CVS: Enter Log.  Lines beginning with `CVS:' are removed automatically
> CVS: 
> CVS: Committing in .
> CVS: 
> CVS: Modified Files:
> CVS: 	1999.txt 
> CVS:
----------------------------------------------------------------------

(Yes, we are using a custom "rcsinfo" checkin message.  It's
stored on the server in Unix LF format.  It appears on a PC
as CVS/Entries/Template, also in Unix LF format.

Is this a bug in TortoiseCVS?  Is this why TortoiseCVS is
unable to remove the CVS: lines?

I tried to hack around this by altering our commit
validation script to remove the CVS: lines on the
server.  The CVS source code seems to support rereading
the log file after the validate script:

http://cvs.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/cvsnt/src/logmsg.c?rev=HEAD&content
-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
(look for cvs_fread() in do_verify().  do_verify() is called from commit.c)

My validate script no longer complains, but the CVS:
lines still go into the file history.  So rereading
doesn't seem to be working properly on the CVS server.

Is this a bug in cvs (Red Hat cvs-1.11.1p1-7)?

Many thanks in advance for any advice,

Mitch.
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