[csw-maintainers] GAR wrapper

Sebastian Kayser skayser at opencsw.org
Wed Dec 22 01:33:36 CET 2010


Ben Walton wrote on 22.12.2010 01:05:
> Excerpts from Sebastian Kayser's message of Tue Dec 21 19:00:31 -0500 2010:
>> This will send a commit with a log message of "colortail/trunk:
>> foo". No need to specify the prefix manually (if you do, mgar won't
>> prepend one).  This prefix has been customary for a while and makes
>> it easier for people who browse the devel list or the Trac timeline
>> [2,3] to identify commits which they might be interested in.
> 
> This is great and will save much typing.  I assume it requires the
> explicit -m though and won't work for interactive commit message
> creation?

Yes, you're right, it's restricted to -m for now. But that's a good
idea. Think it should be fairly trivial to prepare the prefix for
interactive creation. At least when considering $EDITOR == vi(m) and
$EDITOR == emacs.

Sebastian


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