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Date:      Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:19:38 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvsweb links in cvs commit messages
Message-ID:  <20000824091937.A534@pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008231638190.9100-100000@dt051n1f.san.rr.com>; from Doug@gorean.org on Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 04:39:02PM -0700
References:  <200008232050.e7NKotG63344@netplex.com.au> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008231638190.9100-100000@dt051n1f.san.rr.com>

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On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 04:39:02PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Peter Wemm wrote:
> 
> > Incidently, what I could deal with is if we create an atomic commit number
> > and collect the individual rcs deltas together and store it in a file or
> > database or something.  Then we can put one http:// link in the bottom of
> > emails which allows looking up by commit number and do all the cvsweb links
> > from there.  That keeps the html junk down to a minimum and actually gains
> > us something in the process - we can use other tools to mine the data for
> > MFC'ing complete changes etc.
> 
> 	Without speaking for him, that's essentially exactly what Josef is
> working on currently. 

To be more accurate, I'm restructuring the scripts in CVSROOT so that
this kind of functionality can be built in in a more controlled way.
The other goals were mentioned in another mail to this thread.

Joe
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