Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 15:19:49 -0700
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To: jon@ctasim.com ("Jon Doran" )
Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Irrelevant comments on cvsup
Message-ID: <10562.839801989@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Aug 1996 15:49:54 MDT." <9608111549.ZM1725@deepthought.ctasim.com>
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> You can either generate the checksums during off hours from a cron job, or > build them up as things change. As you pointed out, there are always people "Knowing when things change" is, of course, the art here. :-) > First, consider people who dump things into the tree via RCS or CVS. Lets > use RCS, since its a lower common denominator. It would be useful to place > hooks in RCS to run filters at various stages of the ci and co process. For > example, a site may have standards on the format of code in the tree, so part > of the ci process might involve running indent on all code to convert it into > the standard format. Part of the co process might involve running indent Perhaps you've just picked a poor example here, but that seems like a pretty whacked-out idea to me. If you checked in code for, say, vi and this auto-indenter ran on it, then Keith sent you another version of vi and you wanted to see what had changed between the two versions, you'd be totally screwed. I dunno, I'd say a feature like this would be like a double-edged sword with no hilt. Jordan
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