From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sun May 06 22:42:24 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 7 May 2001 05:42:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 50529 invoked from network); 7 May 2001 05:42:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 7 May 2001 05:42:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta2 with SMTP; 7 May 2001 05:42:23 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 14wdmp-0001pb-00 for ; Sun, 06 May 2001 22:42:23 -0700 Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 22:42:23 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] CVS ettiquette Message-ID: <20010506224223.D21597@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <0105060002360A.05301@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <0105060002360A.05301@neofelis>; from phma@oltronics.net on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:48:55PM -0400 From: Robin Lee Powell On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:48:55PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > 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. Thanks, Pierre, although I'll admit some of those blanks are mine. 8) -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/