On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> severity 360545 wishlist
> thanks
>
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:52:47PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote:
> >Package: cvs
> >Version: 1:1.12.9-17
> >Severity: important
> >Justification: fails to build from source
>
> What fails to build from source?
Whoa. Where'd that come from? Consider it user error. :)
> >(very tempted to mark this bug as grave, given the dataloss my own
> >tyop combined with this has caused me).
> >
> >If I have a tyop that means I have not effectively supplied a filename
> >to operate on, cvs commit unfortunately can act on its own. Sure, I
> >can stop it recursing down directories using a -l in my .cvsrc file,
> >but the default is still for the no-argument case to be interpreted as
> >'.'.
> >
> >I think there should be at least a switch I can put in my .cvsrc file
> >that tells cvs commit, or even cvs itself, that the no-argument case
> >is *not* interpreted as '.'.
>
> Yes, I agree that could be a useful feature. Hence I'll forward this
> bug upstream as a wishlist item.
Thanks.
> >Combine this "feature" with my habit of using "-m 'changes made....'",
> >causes me problems every few months: If I press enter prematurely, and
> >have just one argument after the "-m" (in my experience, it's usually
> >the last filename I committed), then I get every single file in the
> >current directory committed with comment consisting solely of that
> >argument following the '-m'.
>
> To be honest, if you're using -m on the command line too then that's
> dangerous - many people disrecommend its use for exactly this kind of
> reason...
True that, but sometimes firing up an editor seems too much like hard
work.
I think the requested feature would still benefit the case of using an
editor, since non GUI editors can't be ctrl-C'd out of -- as soon as you
exit the editor, cvs will commit all the files in the current directory.
You'd have to hope that you can background the editor in question (old
school pico can't do this by default), and be able to kill cvs.
--
TimC
TELESCOPE, n.
A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the
telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a
multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell
summoning us to the sacrifice.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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