From phma@oltronics.net Sat May 05 21:49:26 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 6 May 2001 04:49:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 29673 invoked from network); 6 May 2001 04:49:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 6 May 2001 04:49:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (207.15.133.20) by mta1 with SMTP; 6 May 2001 04:49:23 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id BDDA43C5D1; Sun, 6 May 2001 00:02:36 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: CVS ettiquette Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 23:48:55 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0105060002360A.05301@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat I looked through the log and saw a large number of entries with no message. Please put a note in the log each time you commit saying what change you made, and if it's anything more than a short comment, post it to the list. As some of you are new to CVS, I'll explain in detail: When you type "cvs commit", CVS talks to the server, and after a while brings up an editor (normally vi, but you can select another with the EDITOR environment variable; I use kwrite) with a few lines like this: CVS: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CVS: Enter Log. Lines beginning with `CVS:' are removed automatically CVS: CVS: Committing in . CVS: CVS: Modified Files: CVS: ot-exodus.texinfo CVS: Added Files: CVS: NEW_WORDS CVS: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There is a blank line before the first "CVS:" line, and the cursor is on that line. Enter the comment (in vi you have to first type 'a' or 'i', and hit Escape when you're finished), copy the entire file to the clipboard (this is not a vi function; highlight it with the mouse), compose a mail message, paste it (middle mouse button; but from kwrite to kmail you can use ^C and ^V), close the editor (:wq in vi), and send the message. If it's not obvious what directory you were in when you typed "cvs commit", please add that to the CVS comment. phma