Re: applying astyle on commit

[Eric Siegerman]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:47:01PM +0200, Maarten de Boer wrote:
> Ok, I have a script which I call from the commitinfo file, that applies
> astyle [but]
> The user that commited the file, still has the unformatted revision on
> his machine
>
> Is there a (server-side) way to force response to client-side update
> requests? In other words, when the client does a cvs update, tell
> it that the revision indeed changed? 

Not that I know of.  As a workaround, try putting a keyword in
the file ($Id$ or whatever).  If I recall, keyword expansion
works by fetching the file back from the server after the commit
-- which, as a side-effect, should give the client the formatted
version.

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