[Mono-list] CVS help

Rodrigo Moya rodrigo@ximian.com
02 May 2002 23:13:00 +0200


On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 20:12, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> I'm about to commit a minor change to CVS.  I've read the CVS manpage and
> the CVS info on the web.
> 
> I think that I've followed the CVS procedure mostly:
> 
> - This is one of the classes that I doing.
> - I know that the change will not break the build.
> - I have updated the ChangeLog file.
> 
> I still have one question which is not addressed on either the manpage or
> the mono site:
> 
> When I commit I get a log to edit.  Am I supposed to write here the
> same things that I already wrote on the ChangeLog file?
> 
yes, or just use:

cvs -z3 commit -m "`head -n ChangeLog`"

being 'n' the number of lines in your ChangeLog entry.

cheers