Re: Remote CVS and CVSROOT/editinfo scripts requiring tty input

[Larry Jones]

Mike McKay Jr. writes:
> 
> I have scripts specified from CVSROOT/editinfo that require user input
> during a commit (the perl script does something like "$answer =
> <STDIN>").  These scripts work fine using local CVS.  However, when I
> use remote CVS (using ssh), the scripts do not prompt the user for
> info.

http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_18.html#SEC167:

        Note: when CVS is accessing a remote repository, or when the
        `-m' or `-F' options to cvs commit are used, `editinfo' will not
        be consulted. There is no good workaround for this; use
        `verifymsg' instead. 

Unfortunately, the advice given in the last line isn't really applicable
here because verifymsg runs on the server so you still can't interact
with the user.  What exactly are you trying to do?

-Larry Jones

This sounds suspiciously like one of Dad's plots to build my character.
-- Calvin