From owner-cvs-usrsbin Tue Mar 18 08:30:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA03587 for cvs-usrsbin-outgoing; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 08:30:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA02949; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 08:28:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from nic.follonett.no (nic.follonett.no [194.198.43.10]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id HAA00474 ; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 07:38:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by nic.follonett.no (8.8.5/8.8.3) with UUCP id QAA14788; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:35:13 +0100 (MET) Received: from oo7 (oo7.dimaga.com [192.0.0.65]) by dimaga.com (8.7.5/8.7.2) with SMTP id QAA09548; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:30:44 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970318163044.00912810@dimaga.com> X-Sender: eivind@dimaga.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:30:45 +0100 To: Mike Pritchard From: Eivind Eklund Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp sig.c sig.h Makefile chat.c main.c timer.c Cc: brian@FreeBSD.ORG, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrsbin@freefall.freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-cvs-usrsbin@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11:39 PM 3/17/97 -0800, Mike Pritchard wrote: >[about 300 lines of diffs deleted] > >The commit log is not really the place for this type of >information, since you have now increased the total size of all >of the RCS files affected by this change by nearly 100%. >In the case of 4 of the files, the log message is either many >times larger or as large as the the actual file itself. How do our infrastructure (CVSup, CTM, people's feelings :) adapt to using the rcs -m command to change the commitlog? CVS itself tolerates it (I use it at work) but do the rest? And is it OK to do? (It would be nice for cases like this.) Eivind Eklund perhaps@yes.no http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/ eivind@freebsd.org