From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24431 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2000 07:27:06 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 10 Apr 2000 07:27:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 20899 invoked by alias); 10 Apr 2000 07:26:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 10607 Received: (qmail 20890 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2000 07:26:39 -0000 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 09:26:31 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200004100726.JAA26191@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk In-reply-to: Peter Stephenson's message of Fri, 07 Apr 2000 21:04:54 +0100 Subject: Patching (was: Re: PATCH: AIX dep.&doc fix; development guidelines) Peter Stephenson wrote: > Bart Schaefer wrote: > > At the time an actual release is done, will the maintainer (hi, Peter) > > please do a sweep of the ChangeLog and convert all the "zefram1XX" etc. > > into the actual article numbers? > > Ouch. Script? I've had an idea at the weekend, but don't know if this is possible with a (remote) CVS server, so I'll have to ask some questions... Using `loginfo', it should be possible to make the CVS server give out numbers for the patches, err... for the commits. If the program executed from loginfo prints something, will that be displayed on the terminal where one does the commit? With a local repository this seems to work. If it works with remote CVS, too, we probably could make the loginfo-program get the number and print, at the end of the commit-output (or somewhere in-between), something like `Commit number xxx'. Next question: could loginfo (or some of the other automatically executed things) append that number to the log-message given to the commit? So that we also have the number in the messages stored in the repository. And finally, if all the above works, the CVS server has the log-message from the user, the patch number and it knows the changed files, so: could it change ChangeLog automatically? Is any or all of this possible? Bye Sven -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de