Re: loginfo and the regex

[Dennis Jones]

That's what I was afraid of.

Thanks.

- Dennis

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Jones" <address@hidden>
To: "Dennis Jones" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: loginfo and the regex


> Dennis Jones writes:
> >
> > Both the CVS manual and the loginfo file state that the "regex" portion
of a
> > line in loginfo refer to a directory name.  However, I have a situation
in
> > which I do not want to log commits of one particular file.  Can I use a
> > filename in the loginfo line instead of a path (so as to refer to that
> > file), and then use DEFAULT for all other commits?
>
> No.  loginfo only gets called once per directory, reguardless of the
> number of files being committed in that directory and the lookup is
> strictly by directory name.  If you don't want to log commits of a
> particular file, you'll have to do that in the loginfo script (and
> decide what to do when someone commits other files in the same directory
> at the same time).
>
> -Larry Jones
>
> Ha!  Wild zontars couldn't drag that information out of me!  Do your
worst!
> -- Calvin
>
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