Subject: Re: re CVS commit mailing list [was: ... BOUNCE ...]
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 07 2001 - 17:53:48 CST
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 06:46:32PM -0500, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Mike wrote
> >At least to me it would be. As mentioned, if I commit a multi-directory
> >path
> >it will
> >result in numerous commit messages that are something like 10-30 seconds
> >apart. Perhaps this _can_ somehow be solved (by delaying the commit
> >auto-posts 60-90 seconds for one user to try to consolidate them?) but then
> >perhaps there are two
> >indicidual committs...
> >Besides, if it includes the complete diff, I'll be online tens of minutes
> >instead of tens of seconds using my bl**dy dial-up. To me that counts.
>
> Actually, Mike, you're only kind of right (which means mostly wrong). You
> can get it so that multiple directory commits get "rolled up" into one big
> commit message. I've done it. The BSD guys have done it. It can be done :-)
> I can provide sample code upon request, but I'll have to be in work to
> physically access the boxes in question (firewalls and such).
See the code for cvs2cl (which generates Changelogs based on CVS logs)
for code to do this. http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl
sam th
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