From owner-cvs-all Wed Aug 23 13:50:59 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from netplex.com.au (adsl-63-207-30-186.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.207.30.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 995F137B422; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:50:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netplex.com.au (peter@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by netplex.com.au (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e7NKotG63344; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:50:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200008232050.e7NKotG63344@netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Doug Barton , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvsweb links in cvs commit messages In-Reply-To: <20000823202312.S20036@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:50:54 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Incidently, what I could deal with is if we create an atomic commit number and collect the individual rcs deltas together and store it in a file or database or something. Then we can put one http:// link in the bottom of emails which allows looking up by commit number and do all the cvsweb links from there. That keeps the html junk down to a minimum and actually gains us something in the process - we can use other tools to mine the data for MFC'ing complete changes etc. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message