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svn:author
V 5
peter
K 8
svn:date
V 27
1997-05-15T19:53:32.000000Z
K 7
svn:log
V 1271
RED ALERT! RED ALERT!  Mission control, we have a slight technical
problem...

No seriously, this is a major revamp of the log scripts in preperation
for an update to a later version of cvs (ie: 1.9.8)

Among the changes:
  - lots of dead code and useless stuff ripped out
  - lots of things rewritten and/or redesigned
  - support new message format that's passed from cvs to the log
    script so that commits to individual files on branches works.
  - perl5 now *required* due to above (hashes of arrays @{$var${tag}})
  - commit message format slightly changed due to per-file branches
  - new mailing lists (well, from last year) and commitlogs supported,
    eg: cvs-contrib, cvs-tools, etc
  - more space for filenames on each line before wrapping.
  - more intelligent line wrapping, alignment should be better.
  - no more insanely long Subject: lines.

There are more changes in the pipeline, including being able to do a
partial commit message when cvs is aborted in the middle of a commit,
but since the diff of the changes is now much larger than the file
itself, and we need the new cvs support, commit this now.

It's had a fair bit of testing in a private copy of the cvs tree, but
it's still not all that unlikely that there won't be things I've missed.

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