[cvsnt] How to force CVSNT users to write a comment when comminting changes?

[Juan Carlos Becerra Irene]

Thank you very much for your answers guys.

I think you are right, on the one hand is useful to have CVS verify that you
are not committing accidentally by forcing to write a comment, and on the
other hand it's quite a big "human" issue to "force" the users to write
something "meaningful". 

I will try to implement the verifymsg solution and also to think in some
other way to convince my colleagues to write a meaningful comment - Maybe
the baseball bat is not a bad idea after all ;).

Thank you again

Regards

Juan Carlos 

-----Original Message-----
From: Merrill Cornish [mailto:merrill.cornish at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Viernes, 18 de Febrero de 2005 10:18 a.m.
To: Juan Carlos Becerra Irene; cvsnt at cvsnt.org
Subject: Re: [cvsnt] How to force CVSNT users to write a comment when
comminting changes?

Juan Carlos,

I sympathize with you, but there's no useful solution that you can _impose_
on your users.  They aren't "forgetting" to enter commit comments.  The
dialog pops up everytime, so they have to deliberately dismiss it.  If they
see no reason to write a comment, then they aren't going to do it.  If they
are forced to write _something_, they'll write garbage.

You are going to have to change their attitude, not their software settings.

Good luck,
Merrill