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

[Larry Jones]

Gerhard Sittig writes:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:48 -0400, Larry Jones wrote:
> > 
> > There's no such option in standard CVS -- you should use -n (which
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> What does that mean?  I researched this on a FreeBSD 4.1 system with
[...]
> The manpage has no hint about any customization or "difference to
> the original".  Should I expect to not everywhere find what I'm
> getting used to working with this program in this environment?

Sounds like it.  I have no idea what the FreeBSD folks have done to CVS,
but it appears that they have at least added a global option.  To my
knowledge, they've made no attempt to get input from the CVS developers
or share their changes with us.

> Until now I thought the "$FreeBSD$" macro to be the only special
> thing about this version.  Where can I learn about those
> "issues"?  And should there be any kind of flag in the --version
> output as soon as any patch not in the "standard distro" went in?

It certainly would prevent confusion -- you may want to suggest it
(strongly!) to whoever is working on CVS for FreeBSD.  You may also want
to suggest that they communicate a bit better with the CVS developers.

-Larry Jones

Oh, now YOU'RE going to start in on me TOO, huh? -- Calvin