Re: different behaviour of 'cvs ci'

[Spiro Trikaliotis]

Hello Jody,

* On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:00:47AM -0700 jody.xha wrote:

> After a crash i had to reinstall fedora 8 and now cvs behaves differently.
> Previously, when i did a 'cvs ci' after changing files in several
> subdirectories,
> the editor opened with all changed files in it.
> Now (cvs 1.11.22) it opens the editor for every subdirectory.

This is not a change of cvs; you changed your CVSROOT description.

If you use a local directory (i.e., /usr/share/cvs/ or c:\cvsrepo) for
your CVSROOT (or with the "-d" option), then CVS asks for your
description for every single directory.

If you prepend a :local: (i.e., :local:/usr/share/cvs or
:local:c:\cvsrepo), CVS asks for the commit message only once.

So, you most probably want to add the :local: before your cvsroot.


HTH,
Spiro.

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  particularly sane to begin with; it is unreasonable to expect them to produce
  sane software."
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