From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 23:51:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA04763 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 23:51:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [194.93.177.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA04622 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 23:49:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@relay.ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA00182; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 09:47:24 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) From: Ruslan Ermilov Message-Id: <199801140747.JAA00182@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Subject: Re: cvsup idea In-Reply-To: <199801132324.SAA00369@eyelab.psy.msu.edu> from "Gary Schrock" at "Jan 13, 98 05:30:37 pm" To: root@eyelab.psy.msu.edu (Gary Schrock) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 09:47:24 +0200 (EET) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-My-Interests: Unix,Oracle,Networking X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Once Gary Schrock wrote: > Probably one of the things that I find most frustrating with cvsup is that > while it will give you the information on what diffs it applies to your > local checkout source tree, there's no way to get it to tell you what the > comments for those diffs were. I maintain a couple of systems where it's > not real practical to remake the system every time something changes, but > only do it when something that I feel is important enough to get in has > changed. Unfortunately, to do this I have to go through the output of > cvsup and check the cvs repository to determine what's changed, which tends > to be a fairly time consuming process. What I think would be really > usefull would be something like a -L 3 level of verbosity, that also gives > you the comment for the changes, then people like me would be able to just > look through the output to see why things have been changed, saving me a > lot of time. Thoughts? The answer is to subscribe to cvs-all-digest. -- Ruslan A. Ermilov System Administrator ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380-652-247647 Simferopol, Crimea 2426679 ICQ Network, UIN