From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25444 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2000 08:03:39 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 10 Apr 2000 08:03:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 7929 invoked by alias); 10 Apr 2000 08:03:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 10610 Received: (qmail 7919 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2000 08:03:32 -0000 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:03:02 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200004100803.KAA13671@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk In-reply-to: Sven Wischnowsky's message of Mon, 10 Apr 2000 09:26:31 +0200 (MET DST) Subject: Re: Patching (was: Re: PATCH: AIX dep.&doc fix; development guidelines) 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 -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de