Re: CVS Pragma - extensibility for CVS

[Martin Cleaver]

--- In address@hidden, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> This is such a GREAT idea!!!  Could it PLEASE become part of the 
> mainstream?!?  I was planning to add subcommands to CVS, but dread 
having to 
> change the client, since I have no clue how to rebuild it like I 
can the 
> server side.  With this feature I can just add scripts.  
> 
> For example, when someone imports a new module the group ownership 
is always 
> that user's default group defined in /etc/passwd.  In order for the 
user to 
> change the group, he has to call CM to have them "chgrp" the tree.  
Wouldn't 
> "cvs pragma chgrp me:diffgroup foo" be so much nicer?  Or how 
about "cvs 
> pragma ls -la foo"??  Or even "cvs pragma setfacl -whatever foo"?
> 
> Please???
> 
> :)hal mahaffey
> 
> In a message dated 10/6/00 3:58:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> address@hidden writes:
> 
> > Hi there,
> >   I wrote this a while back but I don't remember whether I 
submitted
> > it. Hopefully the description below is sufficient - even if you 
don't
> > use my implementation you may wish to consider the idea. 
> > 
> > Regards,
> >   Martin.
> > 
> > From Pragma.c:
> > * 
> > * Pragma (address@hidden) 10/Dec/1997
> > * ================================== ===========
> > * 
> > * Allows users/administrators to add arbitrary commands under the
> > CVS
> > * command. Typically this is used to prototype new cvs commands, 
but
> > * also allows customisation of without recompilation.
> > 
> 
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