Re: [Gaim-devel] tabs

[Ethan B. <ebl...@cs...>]

Vincent Ho spake unto us the following wisdom:
> CVS commit logs don't correlate changes between files.  This is one of
> the key drawbacks of CVS IMHO, that commits are done on a per-file basis
> and it has no concept that any changes to multiple files are linked.
> Without tags, there is no simple way to say "find this change I did to
> multiple files", and view/revert it.

http://www.cobite.com/cvsps

It seems to choke on generating patchset *patches* for gaim, but I
find it very useful for browsing the logs.

> Hence why I prefer the ChangeLog as a log of discrete changes, and NEWS
> for the bird's eye view of release changes.  But I digress; it seems the
> main reason logging on a commit-by-commit basis to the ChangeLog is a
> pain is because you guys have made it so =3D)

How so?  The point that I and Rob both made was that we don't want to
see that kind of volume of information in the ChangeLog.  The current
method has what we want in the ChangeLog.  Perhaps it is painful for
you...

Ethan

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