cvs commit: doc/ja_JP.eucJP/books/handbook/desktop chapter.sgml

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-06-16 05:46, Hideyuki KURASHINA wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:34:52 +0000 (UTC),
>>>> Hideyuki KURASHINA <rushani at FreeBSD.org> said:
>> rushani     2005-06-15 20:34:52 UTC
>>
>>   FreeBSD doc repository
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     ja_JP.eucJP/books/handbook/desktop chapter.sgml
>>   Log:
>
> (snip'ed)
>
> Apologies...
>
> Sorry, I don't use ``cvs commit -F'' for the next time...

Actually, please do.

Typing the log message in an offline file and then using:

	% cvs ci -F logmsg file [...]

tends to lock the repository files for the minimal amount of time
necessary to do the commit operation.  On the other hand, using:

	% cvs ci

and then sitting in an editor (with parts of the repository locked)
usually ends up in quite a few problems:

  - Quickly typed log messages that are a mess, or
  - Trouble by failing connections that leave stale CVS locks around

I've been bitten by both, quite a few times; thankfully, not in the
central FreeBSD repository, but other CVS trees.

So, please, you are welcome to use cvs commit -F logfile :)

- Giorgos