From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26726
Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
Subject: Re: *** empty log message *** is a no-no
Date: 12 Nov 1999 07:33:19 -0500
Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu
Message-ID: <86zowjevow.fsf@megalith.bp.aventail.com>
References: <whd7tg564s.fsf@viffer.oslo.metis.no> <is1z9v537x.fsf@talo.ps.uni-sb.de> <m3aeoj9abm.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> <whr9hv52dh.fsf@viffer.oslo.metis.no>
Reply-To: wmperry@aventail.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163881 20952 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:31:21 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:31:21 +0000 (UTC)
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Return-Path: <owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu>
Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48])
	by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA01603
	for <jason@mailhost.sclp.com>; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 07:32:04 -0500 (EST)
Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5])
	by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAB25411;
	Fri, 12 Nov 1999 06:32:00 -0600 (CST)
Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 12 Nov 1999 06:32:17 -0600 (CST)
Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139])
	by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA19110
	for <ding@hpc.uh.edu>; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 06:32:05 -0600 (CST)
Original-Received: from biff.kiva.net (biff.kiva.net [206.97.64.31])
	by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA01598
	for <ding@gnus.org>; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 07:31:35 -0500 (EST)
Original-Received: (qmail 30736 invoked from network); 12 Nov 1999 12:30:19 -0000
Original-Received: from usrpri2-55.kiva.net (HELO megalith.bp.aventail.com) (206.97.75.120)
  by biff.kiva.net with SMTP; 12 Nov 1999 12:30:19 -0000
Original-Received: (from wmperry@localhost)
	by megalith.bp.aventail.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA09902;
	Fri, 12 Nov 1999 07:33:19 -0500
Original-To: Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>
X-Face: O~Rn;(l][/-o1sALg4A@xpE:9-"'IR[%;,,!m7</SYF`{vYQ(&RI1&EiH[FvT;J}@f!4kfz
 x_!Y#=y{Uuj9GvUi=cPuajQ(Z42R[wE@{G,sn$qGr5g/wnb*"*ktI+,CD}1Z'wxrM2ag-r0p5I6\nA
 [WJopW_J.WY;
In-Reply-To: Steinar Bang's message of "12 Nov 1999 13:19:06 +0100"
Original-Lines: 27
User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) XEmacs/21.2 (Shinjuku)
Precedence: list
X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7
Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26726
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26726

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
> 
> > The ChangeLogs are the log files for Gnus.  So if we could get the
> > ChangeLog generated from the CVS logs
> 
> This should be possible to do with the 
>         CVSROOT/loginfo
> script.
> 
> > (or the other way around, preferably), that would be neat.
> 
> Do you check in many files at a time?  Then it should be possible to
> create a wrapper script for "cvs ci" that picks out the latest entry
> in the ChangeLog, and uses this as the log message for the checkin.
> 
> But I prefer the first solution.

You can also do:

(add-hook 'vc-checkin-hook 'vc-update-change-log)

Every time you check in a file from within emacs, it will update the change
log with your vc change notification as well.

-Bill P.