From owner-cvs-all Sun Aug 13 13: 6:10 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt051n1f.san.rr.com [204.210.32.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D36FE37B622; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:05:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA07889; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:05:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3996FF9D.C5497459@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:05:49 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Warner Losh , Ade Lovett , Jonathan Lemon , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes References: <20000807171632.B514@FreeBSD.org> <200008072049.NAA00374@freefall.freebsd.org> <200008072201.QAA34941@harmony.village.org> <20000807171632.B514@FreeBSD.org> <200008072226.QAA35123@harmony.village.org> <20000808145630.L14108@pavilion.net> <399395C7.6CF57646@gorean.org> <20000812180157.C509@pavilion.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Josef Karthauser wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 10:57:27PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > > Josef Karthauser wrote: > > > > > I'm rewriting the CVSROOT/stuff.pl scripts at the moment. > > > I'd really appreciate it if any suggestions can include me > > > in the Cc so that I can build them in. > > > > I'm heartily in favor of adding the cvsweb links. Hoek's procmail recipe > > has made a world of difference in what I've been able to follow commit > > wise. Josef, I sent you a patch under seperate cover. > > A problem with this that I can see is what happens when a 'mega' commit > occurs, i.e. when someone changes lots of files in the same commit. > It is really necessary to provide cvsweb links for each file/change? I think the better question is, why is it bad? Sure, it adds some volume to the mail, but it's not the end of the world. Those mega-commits don't happen very often, so you're really talking about an edge case. > I favour the unique commit id idea instead, and teaching cvsweb or > something about how to use these to determine a set of related > commits. It would then make sense to add a single link to the email > message that evokes cvsweb to show the commit set. That seems like a lot of work for very little benefit to me. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message