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@@ -245,17 +245,30 @@
A new command seems appropriate for this. The state can be saved in the
CVS directory. I.e.,
-
- % cvs msg foo.c
+
+ % cvs message foo.c
Enter log message for foo.c
>> fixed an uninitialized variable
>> ^D
- The text is saved as CVS/foo.c,m (or some such name) and commit is
- modified to append (prepend?) the text (if found) to the log message
- specified at commit time. Easy enough. (having cvs commit be
- non-interactive takes care of various issues like whether to connect
- to the server before or after prompting for a message -kingdon, June 1996)
+ The text is saved as CVS/foo.c,m (or some such name) and commit
+ is modified to append (prepend?) the text (if found) to the log
+ message specified at commit time. Easy enough. (having cvs
+ commit be non-interactive takes care of various issues like
+ whether to connect to the server before or after prompting for a
+ message (see comment in commit.c at call to start_server)
+ -kingdon, June 1996)
+
+ I'm not sure about the part above about having commit prompt
+ for an overall message--part of the point is having commit
+ non-interactive and somehow combining messages seems like (excess?)
+ hair.
+
+ Would be nice to do this so it allows users more flexibility in
+ specifying messages per-directory ("cvs message -l") or per-tree
+ ("cvs message") or per-file ("cvs message foo.c"), and fixes the
+ incompatibility between client/server (per-tree) and
+ non-client/server (per-directory).
151. Also, is there a flag I am missing that allows replacing Ulrtx_Build
by Ultrix_build? I.E. I would like a tag replacement to be a one step
@@ -371,16 +384,6 @@
similar result). (But watch out for what happens if the network
is down!).
-181. Make a "cvs message" command which prompts for a log message and
- stores it in the CVS directory. Then "cvs ci" would use it.
- This solves the problem with where in the client to prompt for
- the log message (see comment in commit.c at call to
- start_server), allows users more flexibility in specifying
- messages per-directory ("cvs message -l") or per-tree ("cvs
- message") or per-file ("cvs message foo.c"), and fixes the
- incompatibility between client/server (per-tree) and
- non-client/server (per-directory).
-
182. There should be a way to show log entries corresponding to
changes from tag "foo" to tag "bar". "cvs log -rfoo -rbar" doesn't
cut it, because it is inclusive on the bar end. I'm not sure that is