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Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:54:23 +0100
From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
CC: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>,
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Subject: Re: publishing changelogs on pgweb
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>>>> BTW, cvs2cl (at least the version I use) works fine against a remote
>>>> repository, so it's not like Ray couldn't have gotten the answer for
>>>> himself.  But a web page would be more user-friendly.
> 
>> What version is this? Mine seems to need a local checkout to work at all...
> 
> Yeah, mine too, but you can certainly make a local checkout if you have
> access to the remote repository.

Ah, misunderstanding..


> One thing to watch out for is that (at least in the version I use) what
> cvs2cl seems to care about is having a local directory structure that
> matches the repository.  If you use the -P option to prune away local
> subdirectories that no longer contain any live files, then cvs2cl won't
> find log entries for the files that had been in that subdirectory.
> Most of the time this isn't a huge problem, but if you want a complete
> history then it's a good idea to make your checkout without -P.

Good point, will be sure not to do that...

//Magnus