Re: The hated $Log$ keyword

2001-07-11 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 04:12:30AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Monday, July 9, 2001 at 00:01:01 (-0400), Eric Siegerman wrote: ] Well, with CVS the meaning of frozen file is quite a bit different. In the most basic sense what I'm saying is that -kv should be the default for cvs export.

Re: The hated $Log$ keyword

2001-07-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, July 11, 2001 at 15:40:04 (-0400), Eric Siegerman wrote: ] Subject: Re: The hated $Log$ keyword On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 04:12:30AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: In the most basic sense what I'm saying is that -kv should be the default for cvs export. Ah, now I get

Re: The hated $Log$ keyword

2001-07-09 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Monday, July 9, 2001 at 00:01:01 (-0400), Eric Siegerman wrote: ] Subject: Re: The hated $Log$ keyword and that they contain their markers when they appear in a frozen file. Why is this a problem? I very much prefer it. Suppose, using SCCS or raw RCS, I accidentally edit a file I

Re: The hated $Log$ keyword

2001-07-08 Thread Eric Siegerman
On , July 7, 2001 at 18:22:09 (+0100), James Youngman wrote: Subject: Re: The hated $Log$ keyword What if there was a keyword like $Log$ but which expanded to the entire log history (with comment leaders)? This would avoid the merge problem and surely cannot be too expensive to compute

Re: The hated $Log$ keyword

2001-07-08 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Sunday, July 8, 2001 at 20:13:40 (-0400), Eric Siegerman wrote: ] Subject: Re: The hated $Log$ keyword I thoroughly agree about $Log$, but: - what's evil about the rest? The evil thing abou RCS keyword design is that they contain their values when stored in the ,v file

Re: The hated $Log$ keyword

2001-07-08 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:39:52PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: The evil thing abou RCS keyword design is that they contain their values when stored in the ,v file, Mmm, yes. If it stripped out the values at commit time, and just stored the keywords, all these *#(! merge conflicts would go

Re: The hated $Log$ keyword

2001-07-07 Thread James Youngman
Richard Wesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, I appreciate the arguments against using $Log$ (redundancy, merging, admin -m, etc.), but these guys really like the Header Comments functionality they had with another system (MPW Projector) so I'm trying to figure out what will work best for

Re: The hated $Log$ keyword

2001-07-07 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On , July 7, 2001 at 18:22:09 (+0100), James Youngman wrote: ] Subject: Re: The hated $Log$ keyword What if there was a keyword like $Log$ but which expanded to the entire log history (with comment leaders)? This would avoid the merge problem and surely cannot be too expensive to compute

Re: The hated $Log$ keyword

2001-05-09 Thread Martin Neitzel
BTW, I appreciate the arguments against using $Log$ (redundancy, merging, admin -m, etc.), but these guys really like the Header Comments functionality they had with another system (MPW Projector) Back in the 80's when I was starting with rcs I considered $Log$ entries to be cute at first. I

The hated $Log$ keyword

2001-05-02 Thread Richard Wesley
Hi all - I am talking to some folks (both in house and at another company) about $Log$ functionality, and I have some questions that I was hoping someone could answer quickly: - Is there a more detailed discussion of the problems than what appears at

Re: The hated $Log$ keyword

2001-05-02 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, May 2, 2001 at 10:39:47 (-0700), Richard Wesley wrote: ] Subject: The hated $Log$ keyword BTW, I appreciate the arguments against using $Log$ (redundancy, merging, admin -m, etc.), but these guys really like the Header Teach them to use cvs log (and even cvs rlog now

Re: The hated $Log$ keyword

2001-05-02 Thread Todd Denniston
Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Wednesday, May 2, 2001 at 10:39:47 (-0700), Richard Wesley wrote: ] Subject: The hated $Log$ keyword BTW, I appreciate the arguments against using $Log$ (redundancy, merging, admin -m, etc.), but these guys really like the Header Teach them to use cvs log