Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Automatic Changelog?

[Srinath A. <sr...@fa...>]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Mikolaj Machowski wrote:

> > I have a general question: (this might be of particular interest to
> > Mikolaj and Artur). Is there any objection to using cvs2cl from now on
> > to generate the Changelog automatically? We would even have a cron job
> > which updates the Changelog every night or something...
>
> urpmi cvs2cl
> ...
>
> Good for me.
> To Artur: Looks like it can deal nicely with branches

Excellent. We seem to be in agreement. A few points to note:

1. Since the Changelog will most probably be used verbatim on the web,
   it will be good to use the 'et' option when writing log
   messages. i.e, spaces not tabs.
   Otherwise, formatting will look funny on browsers.

2. Please try to write with '&tw' set to 78 when writing log messages.
   This will avoid long lines in the Changelog. cvs2cl does not seem to
   handle very long lines well.

Basically, have 'set et tw=78' in your cvs.vim ftplugin

Thanks,
Srinath