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Re: Re: Change Bars
Joerg Wittenberger <Joerg.Wittenberger@pobox.com> writes:
> >>>>> Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr> wrote:
> > The proper place to put revision history seems to
> > be <revhistory> but, with the revision control tool I use, CVS, there is
> > apparently no simple way to put automatically the CVS log in
> > <revhistory>.
Why not use $Log: $ ? Too ugly?
> At the other side, nobody wants to clutter all the doc source with
> revision history all the time.
>
> What's really missing in docbook, (and what's probably outside of it's
> scope, but I don't know) is an advice how to use the Revision
> attribute. Second, over there at the dsssl list, we should make
> Norm's style sheets create change bars for the differences between two
> revisions (and ommit all other revisions) or thomething like that.
What would be really cute would be to hook into CVS, compare two
versions, and take that 'cvs diff' output, and attach automatic
'revision=new' attributes (or some such, don't know the proper way)
into an autogenerated modification of the up-to-date source, and then
format that with change bars. For extra credit, compare the two SGML
or XML versions as ESIS streams first, effectively normalizing them.
Seems like a lot of work!
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