[Savannah-hackers] Re: diffing emacs branches

[Rudy Gevaert]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 10:21:30AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     ^emacs /usr/local/bin/log_accum -T emacs -C -m address@hidden 
> address@hidden  -s %{sVv}
> 
>     #       -r TAG          - operate only on changes with tag TAG
>     #       -r BRANCH       - operate only on changes in branch TAG
>     #                         Use -r "" for "only changes with no tag or 
> branch".
> 
>     I do not remember what you wanted, but with this information I can
>     only say that the new log_accum script has never been used, because
>     the entry in loginfo is the standard entry.
> 

> What you see is that the new -r feature is not being used.  

Sorry, I wanted to say that too (now).

> The new log_accum script IS being used, if it is still the one that
> is installed.  (Can you check that?)

Yes it is true.

> It handles branches in an intelligent way even without the -r option.
 
> We did have a plan to start using the -r option.
> The idea is to run log-accum with -r "" for emacs-diffs,
> and run it with -r RC for another list, emacs-rc-diffs.
> 
> Want to try that?

Sorry, I do not have the time to do it and follow it up.  One of the
emacs admins has to make that mailinglist and update the loginfo file
in the CVSROOT file.




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