From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 11:04:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Optimized cvsexportcommit: calling 'cvs status' only once instead of once per changed file.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705091303280.4167@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <0056A63A-D511-4FDD-82A6-A13B06E237E9@zib.de>

Hi,

On Wed, 9 May 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

> The old implementation executed 'cvs status' for each file touched by 
> the patch to be applied.

I did not follow development of that script closely, but could it be that 
this is a safety valve, to make it unlikely to commit something which was 
changed by somebody else in the meantime?

Ciao,
Dscho