Re: can checkin id come from login-- not CVS/Root?

[Derek R. Price]

address@hidden wrote:

>       Because it has many junior developers, my company uses a centralized
>  development model.  Rather than having each developer load tomcat on his or 
> her
>  laptop, they all develop on one central app server.  We would like to use 
> cvs,
>  but in order to do so we must solve one problem.  If there is one working 
> copy
>  of a project checked out onto this central app server and it was checked out 
> by
>  developer A, can developer B make some changes and check them in and have it
>  recorded in the repository that HE is responsible for the change-- not
> developer
>  A.   In other words, can I get cvs to use my login at check-in time rather 
> than
>  what is stored in the    CVS/Root files of the working copy?

cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot ...

works, so it doesn't seem worth hacking CVS for.

You're also probably causing all kinds of headaches for yourself.  Can you
reoganize things to give each developer a separate workspace on that app server?
Or if you need the central shared space for testing with some application, use 
the
loginfo hooks to update it automatically when a developer checks in code.  See 
the
manual on loginfo and "Keeping a checked out copy" for more.

    http://cvshome.org/docs/manual

Derek

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