From owner-cvs-all Thu Aug 24 1:19:42 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from genius.systems.pavilion.net (genius.systems.pavilion.net [212.74.1.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC31D37B424; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 01:19:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by genius.systems.pavilion.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 0C4889B2D; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:19:38 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:19:38 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Doug Barton Cc: Peter Wemm , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvsweb links in cvs commit messages Message-ID: <20000824091937.A534@pavilion.net> References: <200008232050.e7NKotG63344@netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug@gorean.org on Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 04:39:02PM -0700 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 04:39:02PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > 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. > > Without speaking for him, that's essentially exactly what Josef is > working on currently. To be more accurate, I'm restructuring the scripts in CVSROOT so that this kind of functionality can be built in in a more controlled way. The other goals were mentioned in another mail to this thread. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message