From owner-cvs-all Thu Aug 24 9:59: 8 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from genius.systems.pavilion.net (genius.systems.pavilion.net [212.74.1.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4F337B423; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:59:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by genius.systems.pavilion.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 885799B2D; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:59:01 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:59:01 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Doug Barton , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvsweb links in cvs commit messages Message-ID: <20000824175901.C8962@pavilion.net> References: <20000823093626.Z4854@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000823120642.C4854@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000823202312.S20036@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000823202312.S20036@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 08:23:12PM +0100 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 08:23:12PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > * Doug Barton [000823 11:57] wrote: > >> > >> As far as I can see, no one is complaining. My point (so long > >> ago...) was simply that I find the links in the commit messages incredibly > >> useful, and I believe others would as well. If anyone needs the procmail > >> recipe let me know, I can pass on the one I cribbed from hoek... > > > > Can you put it up on a url somewhere? > > file:/usr/ports/mail/cvsmail is another alternative. :-) > > David O'Brien said that hoek's perl script didn't actually link to the > specific diff associated with the commit, just to the file itself, so > you still had to find the "diffs from a to b" link in that page to click > on. I've never used his version though. I just know my program does > the Right Thing. On a related thing it would be really useful to be able to do: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/bin/chmod/chmod.1?rev=HEAD to pull out head release of a file. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message