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Bo, > 1) Modifying the log message if it has been mistakenly copied > from the previous commit in WinCvs. Happens now and then and > is misleading in future reading of the logs. > hmmm.... Not so sure where I stand on that. If a particular GUI makes this an "easy mistake to make" then it'd be probably better to fix that GUI. If users really need to modify a comment on a revision (or even expand the comment on a revision) the modification probably should be versioned. In EVS properties are certainly versioned - but I don't know if it's possible to change the version of a property without changing the version of the object that it is a property of... > 2) When one stores binaries (like we do), the principle is > that normally only tagged releases should be committed. But > this tends to be forgotten and a large number of intermediate > unusable binaries (exe file for instance) get committed. THis > in turn leads to the RCS file growing to a very large size on > the server, which then leads to the slowing down of cvs > operations on that module. If you consider that, an admin > command that simply cuts away a number of non-useful > intermediate binaries is really handy to reduce the RCS file size. > I agree with Tony's comments on this point. Also due to a bug in the MS C runtime library - windows servers handle large RCS files very very poorly. The next build includes some workarounds for that. Regards, Arthur