Re: cvs pserver and knowing who did what

[Larry Jones]

Chris Niekel writes:
> 
> When I use the loginfo method to automatically send mail about the commits,
> the "Author" is always set to 'cvsaccount'. Is there any way to make this
> the 'user' entry? 
>
> I'm just using an example log.pl script, but I printed the environment
> settings, and that also didn't have any knowledge of the 'user' name.

You have to pass the username ($USER) explicitly from the loginfo file
-- that's why the example log.pl script has a -u option.  See the
loginfo example in the manual:

http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_18.html#SEC170

-Larry Jones

I told her to expect you to deny everything. -- Calvin