Re: Edit comments?

[Richard Wesley]

I have a Projector integration tool for the CodeWarrior IDE, and what 
I do there is put up a dialog (analogous to the $EDITOR invocation 
under UNIX when -m is omitted).  The default text is the checkout 
comment and the user is free to edit it.  So part of the solution 
could be to do the same thing with the command line.  There would 
still need to be some sort of query for the non-CL interfaces.

One other thing my tool does is allow you to change the comment to 
document any changes in your intentions.  Perhaps the query and 
change could be variants of the same command?

At 12:31 -0400 10/13/00, Noel L Yap wrote:
> I had thought a little about this at one point.  IIRC, this would involve no
> more than adding an extra subfield in fileattr and extending the protocol a
> little.  I don't think this is that much work since the protocol can 
> be extended
> easily without breaking older clients/servers (but you may not have the new
> feature if you use older clients/servers).
>
> One thing to ensure is that special characters in the new subfield must be
> escaped properly.
>
> Using the comments for checkin may need some more thought.  For example, will
> the edit comments be appended to the checkin comments or will they replace
> checkin comments?
>
> Noel
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> address@hidden on 2000.10.13 12:02:54
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> To:   address@hidden
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> Subject:  Edit comments?
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> I am a Macintosh programmer mostly, and one of the things that the
> hoary old MPW Projector system had that I miss in CVS is the notion
> of checkout comments.  Projector is an exclusive locking system and
> when you locked a file, you had the option of adding a comment
> describing what you intended to do.  This was very handy for both
> small project communication and for jogging your memory.
>
> The closest thing in CVS is the edit command.  edit maintains a list
> of folks who are working on a file.  It occurred to me that there
> could be an additional comment field in the editors list.  This would
> work very nicely with the edit -c patches, but it would probably
> require file format and protocol changes.  I'm also not sure how one
> would extract the comment for the edit that was about to be committed.
>
> Comments ;-)?  Suggestions?
>
> - rmgw
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- rmgw

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