pll@lanminds.com wrote:
>>>>>>On Thu, 15 May 2003, "brane" == =?UTF-8?B?QnJhbmtvIMSMaWJlag==?=
>>>>>>wrote:
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>
> brane> On the other hand, it's quite easy to write a wrapper script
> brane> around "svn log" that filters the log output like this, and
> brane> you can then educate your users about the correct log message
> brane> format. This seems like a site-specific thing that can easily
> brane> use a site-specific solution, without touching Subversion
> brane> code at all.
>
>This is what most ClearCase sites do in my experience, and, where
>their UCM paradigm is derived from. So many CC sites wrote
>site-specific wrappers around the raw CC command set to "protect" the
>users from the underlying power (of shooting themselves in the
>foot), that Rational decided to build a front-end, locally
>customizable front-end to CC and give it the fancy name of Universal
>Change Management.
>
>At first, it was nothing more than a white-paper describing a set of
>best-practices. Evidently they say lots of money in it :)
>
>
Heh. If Subversion had a $2500-per-seat-per-year price tag (and again as
much for MultiSite), and a 10000-user installed base, we could afford to
fiddle with front ends like that, too. :-)
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Brane Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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Received on Thu May 15 22:05:25 2003