address@hidden: Re: [Savannah-hackers] Emacs-commit does not catch every commit]

[Eli Zaretskii]

Would people who commit changes to the Emacs CVS tree please make
sure they access the repository through /cvsroot/emacs, not through
/home/cvs?  As Jaime explains below, the latter defeats the email
notifications sent to the Emacs-commit mailing list.

Thank you.

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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 18:52:18 +0000
From: "Jaime E . Villate" <address@hidden>
To: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden, Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Savannah-hackers] Emacs-commit does not catch every commit
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In-Reply-To: <address@hidden>; from address@hidden on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 
02:33:17PM +0200

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:33:17PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> It seems that something's wrong with the Emacs-commit mailing list: some 
> of the commits to the CVS are not sent to the list.  For example, the
> changes below are listed in lisp/ChangeLog, but I was unable to find them 
> in the list archives 
> (http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/emacs-commit/2001-October/author.html).  
> Also, with the single exception, commits that I did myself are not 
> in the archive.
> 
> Could someone please look into this?  It's possible that I goofed while 
> editing the relevant files on savannah, but I generally followed the 
> instructions (which are very clear).

Hi,
What you did is correct. The problem is that there is ONE repository for
emacs, but TWO methods of accessing it. The old method used /home/cvs as the
root, while the new method (the one described in Savannah's page for emacs)
enters the repository through /cvsroot/emacs.

Developers using the old method (like you) will not activate the mail
notification mechanism. Those who use the new method (pj and gerd, for
instance) will make the mail notification work.
You should tell emacs developers than in order to really use Savannah, which
includes cvs update notifications via e-mail, they will have to make a fresh
new copy of the repository, using the access method described in Savannah (or
modify the Root information in their local copy if they know how to do it).

Regards,
Jaime
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