[Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch

[Dustin Sallings]

On Thursday, Sep 25, 2003, at 20:25 US/Pacific, Miles Bader wrote:

> No, but really, is the fact that cvs starts the editor for you actually
> that big a deal?

        It's two commands I've gotta type rather than one.

> I suppose it would be easy enough to add a -E option to `tla commit'
> that did just did `system ("$EDITOR `tla make-log`")' before commiting,
> but personally I find this behavior of CVS more annoying that helpful
> (I'd actually rather it complained that I didn't specify a log message
> and abort).

        This is why user preferences should wrap such behavior.

	But really, what's the point of having an application issue a warning 
telling you to type a command?  What would you do next other than type 
that command yourself?

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