Re: proposed enhancement: better logmsg formatting

[Greg Klanderman]

>>>>> Russ Tremain <russt@ebay.sun.com> writes:

> Hi Greg -
> I'm interested in trying out your patch, and
> have been working in a similar area. I have added a "d"
> format specifier that will include the revision number of
> the "dead" revision when a file is deleted.  (We need this
> to get the rcs log message for the deleted file so we
> can scan the message for a numerical identifier to hook
> it to an external "commit notice" facility.)

Hi Russ,
Hmm, I never tested it, but I would have assumed that the 
existing {v} specifier would have done this, and if not 
that it should be fixed to do so.  Or am I confused?

> I'm particularly interested in your "t" specifier, as I was
> thinking along similar lines.  One question - will {t} retrieve
> the cvs branch name?  Or will it only retrieve a tag associated
> with the specific revision that was committed?

> I would like a format specifier that finds the branch tag
> for a commited file... I was thinking about using "b".

If I understand you correctly, {t} does what you want.  
You can't commit to a tag that is a revision, only to 
a tag that is a branch.

> Thanks very much for sharing your work.

No problem, I'm glad there's interest...

greg