RE: Change Sets, like found in Eclipse?

OK, so I obviously am also guilty of not having read your intial post
properly...

Now, let me try again:

I also haven't worked with Eclipse and thus don't know the feature you
describe first hand. Your use of the term "change set" in this context
confused me as it probably did Arthur. "Change set" in version control is
usually associated with a very distinct concept - one that is not currently
supported by CVS (but it is in part supported by CVSNT via the "bug id"
feature). However, unless I misunderstood your descriptions, what you
describe sounds more like a poor man's attempt at mimicking one aspect of
change sets with CVS - at the cost of losing one of the (IMO) most important
benefits of source control: namely meaningful commit comments.

Now, nothing is stopping you from supplying identical commit comments for
several subsequent revisions with WinCvs right now but if I understood you
correctly (and I'm still not entirely sure I do) this is not really the part
of the process you want the tool to assist you with. It's more about the
analysis of that information, right? You might want to take a look at the
ChangeLog macros (Macros|Build ChangeLog... or Admin|Admin
macros|ChangeLog...) which do group together commits with identical comments
- however, they also group by date and author first. If you're savvy with
Python it shouldn't be too hard to remove those additional grouping levels.
It would indeed be mandatory to supply a date range filter in that case in
order to get any remotely useful results.

Hope this helps.

Oliver
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
> Of xenomino
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:26 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [cvsgui] Change Sets, like found in Eclipse?
> 
> All,
> 
> I've been a user of WinCVS now for a couple of years, and love the 
> functionality of the tool.  Recently, I discovered the change-set 
> feature of Eclipse which groups all updates to a branch with the same 
> comment together.  This is useful if developers check in all changes 
> for a given requirement or defect using the same comment; CM folks can 
> see what's been changed over a period of time quite easily.
> Unfortunatley, the Eclipse tool only provides change-sets for code 
> since the last time you updated your local code.  Is there a way to 
> get "change sets" like those in Eclipse from WinCVS by entering a 
> date- span?
> 
> v/r,
> 
> Xeno



 
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