[m-dev.] for review: get cvs to check log messages

[Fergus Henderson]

Hi,

Any objections to the following?
If not, I'll commit this within the next couple of days.

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Estimated hours taken: 0.25

CVSROOT/checklog:
	New script, for checking that the log message has been filled in.

CVSROOT/verifymsg:
	Run the checklog script.

Workspace: /home/pgrad/fjh/cvs
Index: CVSROOT/checklog
===================================================================
RCS file: checklog
diff -N checklog
--- /dev/null	Thu Mar 30 14:06:13 2000
+++ checklog	Thu Nov  9 16:31:42 2000
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+#       checklog filename
+#
+#  Verify that the log message has been filled in.
+#
+if grep '<overview or general description of changes>' $1 ||
+   grep '<directory>/<file>:' $1 ||
+   grep '<detailed description of changes>' $1
+then
+   echo
+   echo "The log message has not been filled in properly."
+   echo "It still contains the <...> bits from the template."
+   exit 1
+else
+   exit 0
+fi
Index: CVSROOT/verifymsg
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/staff/zs/imp/CVSROOT/verifymsg,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -d -r1.1 verifymsg
--- CVSROOT/verifymsg	1999/11/19 04:24:07	1.1
+++ CVSROOT/verifymsg	2000/11/09 05:23:51
@@ -19,3 +19,4 @@
 # One thing that should be noted is the the ALL keyword is not
 # supported.  There can be only one entry that matches a given
 # repository.
+DEFAULT		/home/mercury1/repository/CVSROOT/checklog

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