Re: cvs commitinfo - remote access issues - enforced code beautification

[Noel Yap]

--- Larry Jones <address@hidden> wrote:
> No, commit does a checkout to expand keywords -- see
> checkin.c starting
> at the comment that says:
> 
>             /* The checkin succeeded.  If checking
> the file out again
>                would not cause any changes, we are
> done.  Otherwise,
>                we need to check out the file, which
> will change the
>                modification time of the file.
> 
>                The only way checking out the file
> could cause any
>                changes is if the file contains RCS
> keywords.  So we if
>                we are not expanding RCS keywords, we
> are done.  */

Thanks for clearing this up.  This comment also
indicates that the checkout is specific to updating
RCS keywords so it wouldn't work for changes made by a
commitinfo script.

Noel


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