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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Greg Stein <gs...@lyra.org> on 2001/12/22 00:18:57 UTC
Re: svn commit: rev 712 - trunk/tools
That is all well and humorous, but now it instills a total lack of
confidence on the part of the user.
WHAT are you trying to really say? Without the gimmicky stuff? Should the
user save a log or NOT?
Given that the script logs all changes, I would presume that it doesn't need
to save a log. And that this note should say that all changes are backed up,
so the user doesn't need to save a copy.
Funny sarcasm is good... but in a real tool, it can cause much more
consternation than laughs :-(
Cheers,
-g
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 12:58:08PM -0600, kfogel@tigris.org wrote:
> Author: kfogel
> Date: 2001-12-21 18:58 GMT
> New Revision: 712
>
> Modified:
> trunk/tools/tweak-log.cgi
> Log:
> * tools/tweak-log.cgi (doFetchLog): Display prominent notice about how
> there's no need to save the output of `svn log' first because nothing
> could possibly go wrong. Right?
>
>
> Modified: trunk/tools/tweak-log.cgi
> ==============================================================================
> --- OLD/trunk/tools/tweak-log.cgi Fri Dec 21 12:58:08 2001
> +++ NEW/trunk/tools/tweak-log.cgi Fri Dec 21 12:58:08 2001
> @@ -175,6 +175,14 @@
> print "<h1>Editing Log Message for Revision $rev</h1>\n";
> print "<h2>Current log message:</h2>\n";
> print "<blockquote><hr /><pre>$escaped_log</pre><hr /></blockquote>\n";
> + print "\n<p>\n";
> + print "<font color=\"red\">\n";
> + print "<i>This cgi script is perfect and has no bugs. Therefore, the\n";
> + print "ordinarily sensible precaution of running `<tt>svn log</tt>' and\n";
> + print "saving the output before you modify a log message is entirely\n";
> + print "unnecessary. After all, what could possibly go wrong?</i>\n";
> + print "</font>\n";
> + print "\n<p>\n";
> print "<form action=\"$gActionURL\" method=\"post\">\n";
> print "<h2>New log message:</h2>\n";
> print "<blockquote>\n";
>
>
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Re: svn commit: rev 712 - trunk/tools
Posted by Karl Fogel <kf...@newton.ch.collab.net>.
Greg Stein <gs...@lyra.org> writes:
> That is all well and humorous, but now it instills a total lack of
> confidence on the part of the user.
>
> WHAT are you trying to really say? Without the gimmicky stuff? Should the
> user save a log or NOT?
>
> Given that the script logs all changes, I would presume that it doesn't need
> to save a log. And that this note should say that all changes are backed up,
> so the user doesn't need to save a copy.
>
> Funny sarcasm is good... but in a real tool, it can cause much more
> consternation than laughs :-(
Mmm, good point. I wasn't thinking of this as a real tool, but it
surely is; come back in a year and it'll have thousands of users and
its own bug database, no doubt. :-)
I've made your suggested change to the message, thanks!
-Karl
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 12:58:08PM -0600, kfogel@tigris.org wrote:
> > Author: kfogel
> > Date: 2001-12-21 18:58 GMT
> > New Revision: 712
> >
> > Modified:
> > trunk/tools/tweak-log.cgi
> > Log:
> > * tools/tweak-log.cgi (doFetchLog): Display prominent notice about how
> > there's no need to save the output of `svn log' first because nothing
> > could possibly go wrong. Right?
> >
> >
> > Modified: trunk/tools/tweak-log.cgi
> > ==============================================================================
> > --- OLD/trunk/tools/tweak-log.cgi Fri Dec 21 12:58:08 2001
> > +++ NEW/trunk/tools/tweak-log.cgi Fri Dec 21 12:58:08 2001
> > @@ -175,6 +175,14 @@
> > print "<h1>Editing Log Message for Revision $rev</h1>\n";
> > print "<h2>Current log message:</h2>\n";
> > print "<blockquote><hr /><pre>$escaped_log</pre><hr /></blockquote>\n";
> > + print "\n<p>\n";
> > + print "<font color=\"red\">\n";
> > + print "<i>This cgi script is perfect and has no bugs. Therefore, the\n";
> > + print "ordinarily sensible precaution of running `<tt>svn log</tt>' and\n";
> > + print "saving the output before you modify a log message is entirely\n";
> > + print "unnecessary. After all, what could possibly go wrong?</i>\n";
> > + print "</font>\n";
> > + print "\n<p>\n";
> > print "<form action=\"$gActionURL\" method=\"post\">\n";
> > print "<h2>New log message:</h2>\n";
> > print "<blockquote>\n";
> >
> >
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