Re: diff in commit message (was: Multiple-line log message)

[Mike Castle]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 08:54:37PM +0200, Gerhard Sittig wrote:
> Does anyone know a method how to incorporate "cvs diff" into the
> "cvs commit" message and thus aid the committer with showing what
> has changed when he is asked to specify what he did and why?

I would have to say, this is probably the ugliest idea I have ever seen.
You really want to do this on a regular basis?  Why?  this information can
ALWAYS be regenerated outside of the log message.

> As a background:  At the moment I employ a homegrown wrapper
> script around RCS to catch the diff before invoking an editor
> with the diff log and the "tell me why you did it" message.

Why not a mycommit.sh that looks like the following:
CVSEDITLOG=/tmp/log.$$
cvs up > $CVSEDITLOG
CVSEDITOR=mycommitedit.sh
export CVSEDITLOG CVSEDITOR
cvs commit
rm /tmp/log

And mycommitedit.sh that looks like:
cat $CVSEDITLOG >> $1
vi $1


That is, instead of trying to shoe horn into cvs commit, put a wrapper
around it.

mrc
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