From owner-cvs-all Tue Apr 25 16:50:33 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from funkthat.com (adsl-63-195-54-213.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.195.54.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E585737B50D; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 16:50:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by funkthat.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) id QAA33609; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 16:45:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20000425164506.30138@hydrogen.funkthat.com> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 16:45:06 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Paul Richards Cc: Alexander Langer , Nik Clayton , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/porter-handbook book.sgml References: <200004222335.QAA55709@freefall.freebsd.org> <390586B7.C49BAAA2@originative.co.uk> <20000425141439.B7779@cichlids.cichlids.com> <39059E50.78E0B20D@originative.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <39059E50.78E0B20D@originative.co.uk>; from Paul Richards on Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 02:32:00PM +0100 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul Richards scribbled this message on Apr 25: > I have long thought that it would be a good idea to add another tag to > the commit message that separates what the committer wants to put in the > logs, and what they would like to have sent to the list since I know > that it is all too tempting to just compile an email message there and > then, rather than fuss with sending a separate message to the list. > > Shouldn't be too hard to do in our Perl scripts, just send all the text > before the tag into cvs, and include the rest in the mail message sent > out. another option is to have a: documentation: line to the commit, and have cvsweb.cgi do an archive look up in cvs-committers to get the documentation out of the mail message... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 408 975 9651 Cu Networking "I say all sorts of useless things." -- cmc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message