Re: Cooperate with non-Emacs-users on CVS projects

[Arjan Bos]

Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> I'm lucky to be able to use Emacs even though my team-mate is using
> NetBeans plus WinCVS.  He has gotten into the habit of invoking
> checkin (however that works in WinCVS, I don't have the foggiest)
> without typing anything at all, AFAICT.  (There seems to be some
> NetBeans facility for using CVS, as well, but I don't know what he
> does with that.)
>
> Now, I like to do C-x 4 a to type useful data and then use C from
> PCL-CVS.
>
> Do people have suggestions on cooperating with others in this kind of
> scenario?  In a carrot-and-stick (but more carrot than stick) kind of
> fashion, I'd like to lure him in with some useful gimmick that he
> might like so that he produces log entries of some kind or other.
>
> Kai
Kai,

Your trouble might be NetBeans. If he has mounted the directory where he 
does his checkout in as a cvs directory, then every now and then 
Netbeans will do check-ins  of files, even if you didn't ask it to. And 
ofcourse, that will lead to check-ins without a message.

(At least that's our experience) Now we use WinCVS combined with c-x v 
v. The directory is mounted in Netbeans as a normal directory.

fwiw, the version of WinCVS we use pops up an annoying screen where we 
can enter a log message.

HTH,
Arjan