Re: permissions on branch

[Nils Jakobson]

Thanks alot! It works perfect, this is very helpful! And good example on
cvs scripting, thanks Shubho.

I wonder if I change all the CVROOT config files directly, is there any
side effects? Just wondering, never used the checkoutlist file.

Nils Jakobson
SWH Technology

----- Original Message -----
From: Shubhabrata Sengupta
To: Nils Jakobson
Cc: address@hidden
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: permissions on branch


Well I have to stay back at office a little bit longer, so I though of sending 
the script now. I have attached a korn
shell script with this mail.

Here's what you should do with it.
a) Check out the CVSROOT directory from your CVS repository
b) Copy this script over the CVSROOT directory and give it execute permission 
for all
c) Modify the script as per your requirements - should be easy
d) Modify the checkoutlist file to have an entry for the script and check in 
the new checkoutlist file
e) Add and checkin the script
f) Make an entry in your commitinfo file for this script and check it in
Your are done now - hopefully things will work.

Thanks

Shubho
-----Original Message-----
From: Nils Jakobson <address@hidden>
To: Shubhabrata Sengupta <address@hidden>
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: permissions on branch

How you mean this, the CVS/Entries are on the client side. I'm using RedHat 
Linux as repository server
with WinCVS clients. I have to intercept the commit somehow thru wrapper or 
similar and then simply
refuse the commit if some condition is met. I dont know how exactly CVS 
internals work, but please send
me the scrip.

Thanks!
-Nils Jakobson
SWH Technology
----- Original Message -----
From: Shubhabrata Sengupta
To: Nils Jakobson ; address@hidden
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: permissions on branch


You can do that by writing a script which parses the CVS/Entries file for the 
branch info and then restrict the checkin
if the branch falls in your restricted list.

You would need to plug this script into the commitinfo file, since the name of 
the file to be checked in would be passed
to this script which you would use to parse the CVS/Entries for the branch info.

You might also like to put this script into some subdirectory of the CVSROOT 
directory and put an entry in the
checkoutlist file so that a copy of the script is always checked out as soon as 
you checkin any changes to this script.

I can send you a sample script if you need one.

Thanks

Shubho
-----Original Message-----
From: Nils Jakobson <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden <address@hidden>
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 4:58 PM
Subject: permissions on branch





Hello, maybe this already has been discussed and there is solution.
What I'm looking for is how to set permissions on specific branch names,
i mean, make some branches read-only. This is necessery because
it happens that wincvs users perform commits where they should not.
I believe this can be scripted in the CVS, but how and from where to
invoke it? It could be great to have config file with list of branch_names
to be treated as read-only.
Its more the development organization problem, but still.

-Nils Jakobson
SWH Technology