On 3/22/07, Roland Levillain <roland@lrde.epita.fr> wrote:
I'm forwarding your comments to the LRDE Projects list, where discussions on Vcs take place.
It's great to see Vcs ran almost out-of-the-box for you! :)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Benoit Perrot" <benoit@lrde.epita.fr> To: tiger-patches@lrde.epita.fr Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:49:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: 2547: Move argp/ to lib/argp/. Wow, vcs is pretty cool BUT I wish I had some documentation ;)
I had no problem setting up my environment, but:
- having vcs complaining that I have junk files in my development workspace,
Yep, that's a rule (--force to break it), but you don't want to break it. $ cat .vcs --- # excluded files will completely disappear from svn status exclude: # !re is for regular expression - !re \.o$ # plain strings - dir/toto - tata # You will still see them but not as unrecognized files. unmask: - !re \.log$ There is also some default conventions: files beginning by: ',' are junk files '+' are precious ...
- having it helping me to actually write my ChangeLog entry (I had already written one, I've been lucky to understand what was happening and not to duplicate my entry :)
Yes, that's an issue for beginners.
- having it diying because I provided a --file=svn-commit.tmp in the first place
The error message could certainly be improved :)
is quite scary, especially when committing in TC :P
I understand your point!
Of course from now on I will let vcs do everything, but migrating from an all-by-hand way to *this* is quite destabilizing -- the first time at least.
Anyway, I very much appreciated its error recovery capability (it failed several times due to my lack of knowledge, but each time in a gracefull manner and conserving my last choices) and its verbosity, even if it does not replace a little manpage ;)
Error recovery is one of the main features of Vcs and that's not only for beginners. Some reasons are: SMTPSERVER not well setup (laptop), wrong passphrase three times, you discovered something missing while reading the patch... It's verbosity can be reduced by setting .vcs flag: $ cat ~/.vcs [ .... ] new_user: false # I'm no longer a beginner interactive: true # I still want some y/n questions color: xmas_tree # I like colors -- Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai <ertai@feydakins.org> http://uttk.org Uttk -- Unified Test Tool Kit