On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:53:10PM +1300, Dan Langille wrote:
> On 9 Mar 2001, at 10:19, Josef Karthauser wrote:
>
> > There isn't such a list currently, but for a while every commit to
> > cvs-all has contained a header that you can filter on for the branch
> > that you're interested in:
> >
> > X-FreeBSD-CVS-Branch: RELENG_4,HEAD
>
> It's possible in theory, but how often is it done in practice? I don't recall
> ever seeing such an example. I've always seen it broken into two
> commits.
There's a difference between whether those commits are committed
remotely or locally. It happens a fair amount, but it depends upon the
development style of the committer.
> > It's my long term goal to produce a proper branch mailing list, but this
> > means doing clever stuff with the commits because it's possible for a
> > committer to affect more than one branch at a time.
>
> This is also a goal of FreshPorts2. I guess we're going to have to look
> closely at this characteristic of the header. Either that or compile the
> XML at the same time as the cvs-all message is created.
It makes more sense to generate XML at message generation time IMO. How
that intergrates into the current scheme of things however is a
different question.
Joe
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