[m-dev.] for review: add "Branches" field to CVS log template

[Peter Ross]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 11:38:57PM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Everyone (myself included) seems to be regularly forgetting to say
> which branch(es) each change is intended for.
> 
> So I propose to include a "Branches" field in the CVS log template.
> This is not particularly useful within CVS itself, since CVS
> automatically records which branch the change is on.  But I think it
> would be very useful when posting changes to mercury-developers.
> 
> The idea is that for the main and release branches, we'd fill in this
> field with a slightly more abstract value that the actual cvs branch,
> e.g. `release' instead of `version-0_10_y' and `main' instead of `HEAD'.
> 
> For example:
> 
> 	Branches: main
> 	Branches: release
> 	Branches: main and release
> 	Branches: reuse
> 	Branches: alias
> 
> Comments?
> 
Good idea.
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