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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