[Xorp-hackers] CVS diff in the automated email?

[Ben Greear]

Pavlin Radoslavov wrote:
> Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Any chance you'd like to add a cvs diff to each of the
>> auto-generated CVS checkin emails?  That would help
>> keep track of what patches are going into the kernel...
>>     
>
> The model for our CVS log messages is based on the
> FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD model.
>
> Including all the diffs is going to add too much overhead to the
> mailing list.
> Typically people want to follow what kind of changes are happening
> (based on the commit messages), and only if they care about the
> implemenation details they run "cvs diff".
>
> Personally I do "cvs diff" for every changed file and I still rather
> do it by hand instead of reading a potentially very long email.
> If you'd like I can send you the simple but unpolished shell script
> that prints the last cvs diff for a file. Nothing fancy but it does
> the job.
>   
It's nice to see a complete changeset at once...  Maybe something 
automated in
the email to give the cvs command to see the entire changeset?  Might could
base it off of date since cvs doesn't handle changesets over multiple 
files so well?

Thanks,
Ben

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