Edit comments?

[Richard Wesley]

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

http://www.electricfish.com/hawkfish/

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