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

[Thomas S. Urban]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 08:15:03 -0800, Noel Yap sent 0.9K bytes:
> --- 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.

It certainly does work for changes made with the commitinfo script - an
undocumented feature, perhaps.

Scott

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