This is the NEWS file for pcl-cvs, an Emacs elisp front-end to CVS.
User-visible changes in the un-official CVS release of pcl-cvs
from the official 1.05 release to 1.05-CVS-$Name: cvs-19 $:
* Support for using ChangeLog files, including hooks to automatically
guess CVS log entries from ChangeLog contents.
* Support for client/server CVS (versions 1.5 through 1.7 and newer).
* New commands for tagging files and directory trees (still needs to
be made to run in the background).
* Better support for recognizing and handling unknown directories.
* An attempt at new ediff and emerge interfaces (still needs work!),
including attempts to make vendor-branch merging work.
* In a possibly misguided attempt to make it easier to see the effects
of changes that affect several files, diff output is now stored in a
uniqe buffer for each file.
* Some commands now have default flags (cvs-*-flags).
* Proper quoting of command line arguments displayed in *cvs-tmp*.
* More hacking with getting CVSROOT right, though probably all
pointless, since CVS should do the right thing all the time.
* Elib is back, at least in the CVS distribution.
* Lots of minor bug fixes, tweaks, cleanup, re-indentation, etc.
* Some minor tweaks, fixes, re-indentation, etc., in the
documentation.
User-visible changes in pcl-cvs from 1.04 to 1.05:
* Elib is no longer distributed with pcl-cvs. You must get Elib
separately, for instance from ftp.lysator.liu.se in pub/emacs.
* The Lucid Emacs support works again.
* A new function, cvs-change-cvsroot, can be used to interactively
switch between CVS repositories.
* The mode line in the *cvs* buffer now indicates when a "cvs update"
is running.
* The .cvsignore file is automatically sorted alphabetically (to
reduce the risk of conflicts when two people add different files
simultaneously). This behaviour can be turned off with
cvs-sort-ignore-file.
* A trailing newline is always added in commit log messages. This
behaviour can be turned off with
cvs-commit-buffer-require-final-newline.
* This version of pcl-cvs should work together with RCVS. I have not
tested this myself, though.
* Plus some bug fixes. (Note that the version of cookie.el that is
distributed with pcl-cvs 1.04 contains errors that affects pcl-cvs.
You should get Elib 0.07).
User-visible changes in pcl-cvs from 1.03 to 1.04:
* Support for Emerge. Hitting "e" on a file that is Modified, Merged
or in Conflict will start Emerge, an interactive file merger written
in Emacs Lisp. This requires Emerge version 4. Emerge is not
included in this package. If you can't find it anywhere else, you
can get in from ftp.lysator.liu.se in pub/emacs. This package makes
it a lot easier to resolve conflicts.
* Emacs will now automatically revert your buffers when the CVS
commands pcl-cvs issues causes the file to change. This automatic
revert never occurs if the buffer contents did not agree with the
file prior to the command.
* If you are running Lucid GNU Emacs, you will get some fonts and
mouse support. This was contributed from people at Lucid.
* The variable cvs-cvsroot can be used to select the location if the
repository. You no longer need to exit Emacs, setenv CVSROOT, and
start a new Emacs if you work with multiple repositories.
* The "q" key can be used to hide the *cvs* buffer.
* The name of the commands in the *cvs* have changed. If it was called
cvs-foo, it will now be called cvs-mode-foo. See the ChangeLog
entry from Tue Aug 4 03:02:25 1992 for a complete list of changes.
* The variable cvs-cvs-diff-flags is no longer used. Instead,
cvs-diff-flags is always used.
* Plus a lot of bug fixes.
User-visible changes in pcl-cvs from 1.02 to 1.03:
* Output from CVS to stdout and stderr is separated and parsed
independently. In that way pcl-cvs should work regardless of
whether stdout is buffered or line-buffered. Pcl-cvs should now
work with CVS 1.3 without modifications on hosts such as
DECstations.
* Pcl-cvs now fully supports RCS version 5.6 as well as 5.5.
* New functions:
+ cvs-undo-local-changes ("U") - Undo all your modifications
to a file and get the newest
version from the repository.
+ cvs-update-other-window - Similar to cvs-update.
+ cvs-byte-compile-files - Byte compile the selected files.
* cvs-update now displays the *cvs* buffer, which initially contains a
small message ("Running `cvs update' in /foo/bar/gazonk/...") until
the update is ready. The *cvs* buffer no longer pops up when the
update is ready. It often failed to pop up, due to race conditions
that are very hard to solve (and I doubt that they were at all
solvable).
* cvs-unmark-all-files is moved from "U" to "ESC DEL" to be
"compatible" with dired.
* cvs-diff ("d") and cvs-diff-backup ("b") can be configured to work
on only the file the cursor is positioned on, and ignore any marked
files. A prefix argument toggles this.
* Only one `cvs update' can be run at a time. (It was previously
possible to start more than one simultaneously, but pcl-cvs could
not really handle more than one.)
* Some rudimentary support for programs that CVS runs at update (due
to the -u switch in the modules file).
* Pcl-cvs now automatically generates a bug report if it can't parse
the output from CVS.
* The *cvs* buffer is read-only.
* Pcl-cvs now creates temporary files in $TMPDIR if that environment
variable is set (otherwise it uses /tmp).
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