cvs-syncmail-talk

[Cvs-syncmail] viewcvs support

[Sam C. <sa...@su...>]

I'm not sure this is the right place for feature requests.  Excuse
me if its not.  Also, I'm not sure this suggestion hasn't come up
before.

I was wondering if it would be possible, optionally of course, to
generate links to viewcvs diffs rather than including diff inline=20
in emails?

This would mean less email traffic and arguably more readable diffs. =20
My suggestion would be to simply include one link per file changes.

Cheers,
sam
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Re: [Cvs-syncmail] viewcvs support

[Barry W. <ba...@py...>]

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 07:51, Sam Clegg wrote:
> I'm not sure this is the right place for feature requests.  Excuse
> me if its not.  Also, I'm not sure this suggestion hasn't come up
> before.
> 
> I was wondering if it would be possible, optionally of course, to
> generate links to viewcvs diffs rather than including diff inline 
> in emails?
> 
> This would mean less email traffic and arguably more readable diffs.  
> My suggestion would be to simply include one link per file changes.

That would defeat the original purpose of syncmail which was exactly to
include the diffs in the emails.  The thought was that we wanted to make
it extremely easy for people to review the changes.  If they had to go
through more than one step to do so, most people would simply ignore
them.  You'd be surprised how many bugs can be caught with a quick scan
through your email window right before you hit delete.

-Barry

Re: [Cvs-syncmail] viewcvs support

[Sam C. <sa...@su...>]

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 16:52, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 07:51, Sam Clegg wrote:
> > I was wondering if it would be possible, optionally of course, to
> > generate links to viewcvs diffs rather than including diff inline=20
> > in emails?
> That would defeat the original purpose of syncmail which was exactly to
> include the diffs in the emails.  The thought was that we wanted to make
> it extremely easy for people to review the changes.  If they had to go
> through more than one step to do so, most people would simply ignore
> them.  You'd be surprised how many bugs can be caught with a quick scan
> through your email window right before you hit delete.

Sure, i'm not suggesting that everyone would use this feature.  However,
in the past I personally have found inline diffs both overly large
and hard to read.  I prefer the colourful side-by-side diff style of
viewcvs.  I also find click-to-view, on a per file basis, easier than=20
multiple files in a single view.

I don't know if other share my preference but if they do it
might be a good feature for syncmail. =20

I've been using a super-simple and no-very-tested script that does
basically what I've described.  I'd like to be using a more standardised
and tested system such as syncmail however.
http://superduper.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/CVSROOT/cvs-log.py?rev=3D1.6&cont=
ent-type=3Dtext/vnd.viewcvs-markup

cheers,
sam
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sam clegg
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