On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Ruediger Pluem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On 06/14/2008 10:20 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > >> Please don't do this; >> >> ----------- >> Revision 663845 - Directory Listing >> Modified Fri Jun 6 07:39:52 2008 UTC (8 days, 12 hours ago) by henryjen >> >> backport r663342 from trunk >> ----------- >> >> Such commit messages aren't legible when comparing a branch to trunk, >> please >> repeat the purpose of the commit in the log message for the backport! >> > Thanks for the correction, I apologize for the mistake. > > There is an IMHO pretty cool script from Joe Orton that is very helpful > for backporting trunk revisions. It creates a file with all the original > commit messages that could be used as commit message for the backport > plus it adds the numbers of the revisions that get backported. It > can be found here: > > http://people.apache.org/~jorton/svn.merge<http://people.apache.org/%7Ejorton/svn.merge> > This is nice, thanks for the pointer. Cheers, Henry
