Re: cvsignore

[Todd Denniston]

Greg Sidelinger wrote:
> Is there a good way to tell the CVS server to never add some directories
> to the repository?  I have a few dirs that get created during the build
> process and should never be committed back but some devs with their IDEs
> can't seem to pay attention to what they do.  I looked into cvsignore but
> I was still able to add the dirs and files if I actually did a cvs add.
>
> I also looked into adding the dirs to CVSROOT/commitinfo scripts and have
> them return false but that causes the entire commit to fail if someone
> tries to add the directories.  I'm looking for a good way to softly reject
> just some directories but allow the rest of the commit to go through. The
> other possibility that I could think of was to create dirs in the
> repository but just remove all write access to they can never be updated
> which does allow the rest of the commit to go though but I'm not a fan of
> this route. I’m personally a fan the commitinfo approach and just
> rejecting the entire commit but some of the developers don’t like this
> approach.
>
> So is there some clever way of softly rejecting come parts of a commit
> that I have over looked.
>
> Greg

Sorry, but it looks like you have come up with the best way, i.e., "create 
dirs in the repository but just remove all write access".

...unless you feel like implementing a patch to cvs so that it does not create 
the directory until the user does `cvs commit`. see the highlights of the 
previous two threads on this...

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2004-11/msg00191.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2004-11/msg00193.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2004-11/msg00213.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2004-11/msg00162.html

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2005-01/msg00244.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2005-01/msg00257.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2005-01/msg00272.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2005-01/msg00335.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2005-01/msg00379.html

Ok, now where did I lay those thermal clothes?
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Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter