Fwd: [sr #104373] CVS commit -> email sends whole file, not diff

[Graham Percival]

Some time ago, we noticed that after branching, the first patch to a  
file
resulted in the whole file being sent as a diff on the cvs email list.   
I recently
got this reply on the issue.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Derek Robert Price <address@hidden>
> Date: October 12, 2005 6:37:07 AM PDT
> To: Graham Percival <address@hidden>, Derek Robert Price  
> <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Subject: [sr #104373] CVS commit -> email sends whole file, not diff
>
>
> Follow-up Comment #1, sr #104373 (project administration):
>
> The best way to fix this would be unify with the version of  
> commit_prep.pl
> from CVS
> (http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/cvs/ccvs/contrib/ 
> commit_prep.pl).
>  It has many bug fixes and enhancements over the version Savannah is  
> currently
> using, including this fix (note that several changes are hidden behind  
> the
> file renames since this script was maintained for some time as  
> commit_prep.in
> in the CVS repository).
>
> The easiest way to fix this, if you are not ready to try and unify,  
> would be
> to pass in %{sVv} instead of %s from CVSROOT/commitinfo and parse the  
> "old"
> and "new" version numbers which would then be passed in from each file.
>
>
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Follow-up Comment #2, sr #104373 (project administration):

Excuse me, I meant to send the link to log_accum.pl
(http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/cvs/ccvs/contrib/ 
log_accum.pl),
not commit_prep, but the rest of what I said should still apply.