Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] CVS logging and scripts headers

[Jonathan S. <gel...@ge...>]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Olivier Dragon wrote:

>
> I was just wondering if people has figured out how to have cvs put the
> log in a different file, or if anything has been tried.
>

I would guess that nothing has been tried because, unless I have missed
something fundamental about CVS (and I don't think so), anything that
happens automatically to the file happens on the server side and can't
create or update local files apart from those that are being updated in
the repository.

Personally as a *developer* I would prefer to have the change logs in the
files that are being edited, and as a *manager of developers* (in the real
world) I would like it that the change logs are present in the files while
they are being actively developed.  This is so that a programmer, on
opening a file for editing, will see (hopefully) what the last committed
action on that file was - this may prevent reduplication of work or
breakage due to cross purposes, it may help in the diagnosis when
something that is being added to the code doesnt work as expected.  I
don't know about anyone else but I don't always find it easy reading other
peoples code and seeing the changes in code almost impossible.

Now this possibly at variance with the other aims of the project, so I
would suggest that we keep the Log entries in the file and have them
removed to a Changes file when a release - the average punters shouldn't
be using the CVS versions as they are probably broken and almost certainly
incomplete ...

/J\
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