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Date:      Tue, 25 Apr 2000 16:45:06 -0700
From:      John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>
Cc:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/porter-handbook book.sgml
Message-ID:  <20000425164506.30138@hydrogen.funkthat.com>
In-Reply-To: <39059E50.78E0B20D@originative.co.uk>; from Paul Richards on Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 02:32:00PM %2B0100
References:  <200004222335.QAA55709@freefall.freebsd.org> <390586B7.C49BAAA2@originative.co.uk> <20000425141439.B7779@cichlids.cichlids.com> <39059E50.78E0B20D@originative.co.uk>

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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: <message-id>

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...

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