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Date:      Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:59:01 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvsweb links in cvs commit messages
Message-ID:  <20000824175901.C8962@pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000823202312.S20036@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 08:23:12PM %2B0100
References:  <20000823093626.Z4854@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008231154070.7876-100000@dt051n1f.san.rr.com> <20000823120642.C4854@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000823202312.S20036@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>

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On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 08:23:12PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> > * Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> [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.

On a related thing it would be really useful to be able to do:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/bin/chmod/chmod.1?rev=HEAD

to pull out head release of a file.

Joe
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