Re: Preview before commit

[Vikrama Ditya]

"Larry Jones" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> Vikrama Ditya writes:
>>
>> I meant cvs commit -n
>
> No, you meant "cvs -n commit".  The obsolete (and undocumented) -n
> commit option meant something completely different.
>
>> cvs -n commit does not give the list of affected files.
>
> That is (unfortunately) correct, but at least it doesn't commit the
> files!  (Making commit work right without executing, particularly in
> client/server mode, is extremely difficult, which is why it hasn't been
> done.)

Just curious, cvs commit does have the information as it provides it in the 
editor before it actually commit them into server, why not have the same 
information available on "cvs -n commit"

>
> -Larry Jones
>
> What a waste to be going to school on a morning like this. -- Calvin
>
>

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Vikram