[467] in athena10
Re: SVN commit logs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy G Abbott)
Sat Aug 23 15:04:08 2008
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:03:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
cc: athena10@mit.edu
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I agree that it would be useful for the SVN commit emails to include the
full text diffs. This has been useful for catching small errors in new
files in other projects I've been involved with.
-Tim Abbott
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> Can we get commit logs of added nonbinary files? It's actually kind of
> confusing to see commit logs with some but not all of the diffs, and then
> wonder whether the code that just got mentioned on athena10@ actually got
> checked in. It would also help being able to do effective post-commit review
> (for both sanity and security) immensely; currently there's a lot of code
> going in that isn't being read by anyone other than the commiter, and we
> commit with null instances.
>
> --
> Geoffrey Thomas
> geofft@mit.edu
>
