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fix expansion of multiple RCS keywords on a line via rsync

Stefan Sperling requested to merge generated-differential-D6708-source into generated-differential-D6708-target

The function RcsKeywords.expand_keyword() is used to expand keywords when fetching an origin over rsync. This function failed to process multiple keywords on a single line, even though the existing code already keeps looping in an attempt to expand multiple keywords.

For example, consider this line from a file in the ccvs CVS repository:

#ident "@(#)cvs/contrib/pcl-cvs:$Name: Id"

Here, a regular CVS server expands both keywords on this line.

The Name keyword is special; It expands only if an explicit tag name was given on the CVS command line. This keyword always expands to an empty string for now, until perhaps one day the CVS loader learns about tags.

Our regular expression which attempts to match keywords on a line splits the above example into two match groups:

1: #ident "@(#)cvs/contrib/pcl-cvs:$Name: $ 2: Id$

The Name keyword was then expanded as expected, but the Id keyword was missed. To fix this, attempt another match starting from the terminating character of the previous match, such that we match the following two strings:

1: #ident "@(#)cvs/contrib/pcl-cvs:$Name: $ 2: Id

Now our CVS loader expands both keywords like the CVS server does. Add new test data to confirm that this works as intended.

Migrated from D6708 (view on Phabricator)

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