Re: forcing the users to write log while commiting

[ankush grover]

> Yes. Look at the verifymsg trigger script.
> http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.21/cvs_18.html#SEC170
>
> Also of possible interest:
> CVS Annotate or FORCING user to comment their checkins
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2005-05/msg00136.html
>
> An example verify_checkin.sh script is provided here:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2000-11/msg00330.html
> to look for a bug number and some commit comments.
>
> If you write a script that looks at the command-line argument filename
> with a log message in it and determines if it passed your criteria, then
> have it 'exit 0' in that case and exit with non-zero return code if it
> fails.
>
> A very simple script might be the following Bourne Shell script that
> asks the 'wc' command to cound the number of words in the log message
> if the number is zero, it will fail the commit after printing a
> "You need to enter a log message." text for the user:
>
>                        ------- cut here -------
> #! /bin/sh
> [ `wc -w < $1` -eq 0 ] && { echo You need to enter a log message.; exit 1; }
> exit 0

Hey Mr. Mark,

Thanks for your guidance. You always have been very helpful.

Thanks & Regards

Ankush Grover