Re: restrict commits of single file

[Todd Denniston]

Michael Niegl wrote, On 10/08/2007 05:00 PM:
> Hello Arthur,
>
> On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:38 PM, Arthur Barrett wrote:
>
> > Michael,
> >
> > > committable. So I tried to put into the commitavail file
> > > avail | <username>
> > > unavail | <username> | <file_incl_full_path>
> >
> > Is this a part of cvsacls or is it some other patch, I've seen the odd
> > reference to it but I'm not sure.  I usually use CVSNT on linux which
> > has inbuilt ACLs but this appears to be something else...
>
> No, it's neither CVSNT nor cvsacl, it's the "standard" CVS version 
> 1.12.13 running on on Red Hat 7.3. I'm not sure about the exact details 
> of the server side as it is centrally hosted on a cluster and AFS and i 
> do not have administrative rights there, except for the project that I'm 
> responsible for.
<SNIP>
> Sadly, there is no precommit in CVS, at least not in the version we're 
> using.

Yes/No, I think you are using a commit trigger script (cvs-acls.pl), which is 
ran before the commit gets to change the repository, If I Recall Correctly 
that makes it a pre-commit script.


A little googleing is kind of interesting...
commitavail seems to be referenced most of the time at *.cern.ch.
poking around with Google revels a copy of commitavail[1].

Which starts out with:
"...See $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvs-acls.pl for  details."

so apparently commitavail is a configuration file for one of the versions of 
cvs-acls.pl[2][3], and from a little visual comparison the version up at [2]] 
is from at or before rev 1.3[4] from Feb 1997.  If that is the version you are 
still using[6] you may find the best help within some lists at cern.ch[5]

Good luck. :)

[1] 
http://atlas-computing.web.cern.ch/atlas-computing/links/releasesBefore1120/HourlyHeadFromCVS/MuonSpectrometer/MuonConditions/CVSROOT/commitavail

[2] 
http://atlas-computing.web.cern.ch/atlas-computing/links/releasesBefore1120/HourlyHeadFromCVS/MuonSpectrometer/MuonConditions/CVSROOT/cvs-acls.pl

[3]http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/cvs/ccvs/contrib/cvs_acls.pl?view=log
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/cvs/ccvs/contrib/cvs_acls.html?view=log

[4] 
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/cvs/ccvs/contrib/cvs_acls.pl?revision=1.3&view=markup

[5] http://spi.cern.ch/cvstools/cvsMigration.html#admins

[6] look in _YOUR_ projects $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/commitinfo file and read the 
cvs_acls.pls that it references.

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Todd Denniston
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