Re: [boost] boost cm practices

From: Bryan Scattergood (bryan.scattergood_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-31 05:23:17

Beman Dawes wrote:
> 
> At 02:14 PM 10/30/2001, mda_at_[hidden] wrote:
> 
> 
>  >it would be nice if:
>  >1. a release were identical to a snapshot of the CVS at some time,
>  >sans the CVS cruft, without someone's personal build artifacts.
> 
> Yes, that would be useful.  If you would like to submit a script (Bash,
> Python, or Win2K batch file) that does that, I'll add it to the release
> procedure.

Why does this need a script? I thought the whole point of "cvs export"
was to generate a cruft-free snapshot of the repository?

>  >2. the release history were documented, with a date, scm label,
>  >human-generated release notes, and (ideally) automatically generated
>  >change summary
> 
> Can't you get that from CVS?  If you have a format that is better than the
> CVS output, consider submitting a script to generate it.

Again, that sounds like an existing tool:
http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/

        Bryan

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