Re: CVS repository

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 10:47, Elliott Hughes wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 10:39, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In message "Re: CVS repository"
> >     on 04/06/16, Elliott Hughes <[e-mail]> writes:
> >
> > |not that i disagree about dumping CVS, but you can use cvs2cl.pl
> > ("sudo
> > |apt-get install cvs2cl" on Debian) to do the equivalent of "svn
> log"
> > for
> > |CVS. i use it all the time, for exactly this. it's silly to have
> > humans
> > |touch the ChangeLog.
> >
> > Hmm, we do other way (generating commit log from ChangeLog) using
> > pcl-cvs.  Is cvs2cl better?
> 
> not by much. as long as you're using a scheme that means you only
> manually work on one thing, the only advantage i can see to generating
> the ChangeLog from the comments rather than the other way round is
> that
> you don't have ChangeLog as a bogus member of each change set.

in case that sounded like a crazy person's motivation...

thinking about it from another angle ("why do i do it comment ->
ChangeLog?" rather than "why should you switch from ChangeLog ->
comment?") gives a more interesting reason, i think. i use a tool that
lets me; forces me, even, to review the diffs as i'm composing my
comment. this is a great way to spot things that still need tidying up,
or debugging code that still needs to be removed, et cetera.

i don't know any emacs users, so i don't know what the experience of
pcl-cvs is like, but these days i feel handicapped when i'm in a
situation where the check-in process isn't a sort of code review.

-- 
Elliott Hughes, BlueArc Engineering