Re: Preview before commit

[Larry Jones]

Vikrama Ditya writes:
> 
> "Larry Jones" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
> news:address@hidden
> >
> > 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"

Yes, it has the information *when it's actually doing the commit*.  The
problem is doing enough work to get the information without doing things
you shouldn't if you're *not* going to actually do the commit.

-Larry Jones

I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people. -- Calvin