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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:55:24 -0700
From: Gary Johnson <garyjohn@spocom.com>
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Subject: Re: rcs 5.8-1 checks out wrong version of file when using similar mark symbols
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On 2012-03-27, Peter Rosin wrote:
> But the point still stands, don't assume the original authors were
> idiots, and dig into the reasons for them to not having used
> strcmp from the start.

I don't know, the "original" authors seem to have gotten it right,
as version 5.7 works correctly on my Fedora system, and the function
in question was added between versions 5.7 and 5.8.

Regards,
Gary


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