Re: Patching (was: Re: PATCH: AIX dep.&doc fix; development guidelines)

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

I wrote:

> 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'.

I forgot: reporting the number on the commit would allow us to include 
it in the mail without having to wait for the mail to come back.

Probably in a subject like `PATCH:xxx:...'. And maybe the mail archive 
could then allow to access them with `http://.../xxx'?


Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de