When a commit to revision control requires a developer to change their own config

Question

What\'s the best method to notify other developers when a change committed into revision control requires some specific additional action by the developer getting the update

Answer 1

Personnally, I use 2 methods :

1. the communication one : I tell to other developpers what manipulations are to do to be up-to-date (correct, but sometimes, we miss some details ....)
2. the scripted one : I made an update script that is used to manage the update of all the parts of my project (different directories, different repositories, different version control...), in this script I put every operation needed to maintain a correct repository (I use it for svn and git repositories).