[m-dev.] makeall script

[Fergus Henderson]

On 30-May-1998, Mark Anthony BROWN <dougl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Hi,
> > 
> > I have a script called
> > 	makeall
> > which will generate a diff for a change, prompt for a log message,
> > aapend the diff to the log message, and prepend an introductory
> > "Hi, this change is going to...." message, and then provide a command
> > line for sending that review to mercury-developers.
> > 
> > It uses a few other scripts I've written, but would be pretty easy
> > to modify for your use.
> 
> This sounds useful.  Would it be a good idea to commit such a script
> to the repository for every developer to (optionally) use?  It
> seems an easy way to stay consistent with the guidelines for
> developers.

According to Fred Brooks, taking something for personal use and making
it usable by others approximately triples the amount of work.

It would not be a bad idea to commit such scripts to the respository,
but only if they are sufficiently well documented, etc.

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