RE: commitinfor and cvswrapper

[Rez P]

Thanks Mathew.  That's what I exactly found out: That when users create new 
image subdirectories, the thumbs.db files get created and unintentionally or 
rather carelessly get checked in.  It'll be really cumbersome to remember to 
traverse through each subfolder to edit .cvsignore files locally or remind each 
new employee/developer to turn off their Window's image cache.  At least in XP 
you could access and turn it off through Explorer's options but in Vista this 
option is hidden and not easily and intuitively accessible or available and you 
either have to know how to hack the Registry or run gpedit.msc.  
 
I did checkout, modify, and add *humbs.db to my CVSROOT/cvsignore file on the 
server but somehow it wasn't working and users were still checking in those 
files.  So thanks to Larry's help, the script he sent me, was put in place and 
works perfectly now.
 
Thanks
 
Rez
 
> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:27:14 -0700
> From: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> CC: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: commitinfor and cvswrapper
> 
> Rez P writes:
> > 
> > Our CVS server is running on Linux and users use CVS.exe or WinCVS on
> > Windows client machines. Is there any way to block users from adding or
> > committing certain files or file patterns to our CVS repository?
> 
> Depending on exactly which client(s) your users use (and how), it might
> help significantly to simply include a line like "[Tt]humbs.db" (without
> the quotes) in the directory's committed ".cvsignore" file. Some
> GUI clients (like wincvs) will automatically exclude ignored files
> from file listings in at least some modes, making them much harder
> to add by accident.
> 
> Limitations:
> - Does not help if your users are doing "cvs add *".
> - Does not help much if your users are regularly creating new
> image directories, which each need their own .cvsignore
> file. You might be able to use the repository-wide
> CVSROOT/cvsignore file instead, but it wouldn't surprise me
> if most GUI clients don't know how to check it when doing
> file listings (not sure).
> 
> --
> Matthew Ogilvie address@hidden
                                          
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