From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 24 09:01:16 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id JAA01863 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 09:01:16 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA01857 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 09:01:14 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA12124; Tue, 24 Jan 95 09:22:58 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9501241622.AA12124@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: cvs commit To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 95 9:22:57 MST Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199501240603.WAA17875@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Jan 23, 95 10:03:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > cvs commit said something like "ci warning: missing message for -m > option" and started asking for messages using the ">>" prompt after > I typed "!" in response to the "a)bort, c)ontinue, e)dit, !)reuse this > message unchanged for remaining dirs" question during a > multi-directory commit. Anyone know why? I have always seen this on multidirectory commits. What happens is the message is created in the first subdirectory, since each directory is the current directory for the commit phase. Typically, if the changes you made are all described by your first comment, use the '!' to reuse the comment on all files. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.