Re: ChangeLogging commits to CVS

Felix Kühling writes:
 > Am Di, den 14.12.2004 schrieb Keith Packard um 18:32:
 > > Around 10 o'clock on Dec 14, Keith Whitwell wrote:
 > > 
 > > > Is there a reason why the ChangeLog entry can't be generated automatically 
 > > > from the CVS commit messages?  Am I missing something here?
 > > 
 > > Yes, because CVS sucks.  You want to have the ChangeLog entry committed 
 > > along with the other changes, but CVS doesn't make that easy and you end 
 > > up double-committing.
 > > 
 > > I finally gave up and just started using prepare-ChangeLog.pl.  If someone 
 > > could fix that script to take directory arguments to look for changes, it 
 > > would be a huge feature as running it from the top of xc takes way too 
 > > long.
 > 
 > That's exactly what I thought looking at the script as a poor 56K modem
 > user. It makes it basically unusable. I'm attaching a patch against
 > Egbert's version of the script. It allows you to run
 > prepare-ChangeLog.pl in any subdirectory and allows you to specify
 > files/directories to commit on the command line. This could also help
 > splitting commits affecting different files (the discussion Daniel and
 > Egbert are having in another sub-thread). Finally it treats any options
 > before the first file argument (or "--") as CVS options. This allows me
 > to add "-z9" to the CVS command lines, which speeds things up
 > considerably over a modem line.
 > 
 > If there is something stupid in the patch it's probably because this is
 > my first Perl hack.
 > 

Felix,

thanks for your patch! I'm going to write up something for the wiki
and make the script (with your patch) available.

Cheers,
	Egbert.