Re: Modify administrative files upon commit

[Stephan Feder]

Hello Stefano,

Stefano Costa wrote:
> 
> Dear readers of this list,
> 
> I have this problem: I'm using a few scripts (perl mainly) that are called 
> before commit (specified
> inside commitinfo) and I'd like to maintain these scripts along with the 
> other CVSROOT
> administrative files. So I added their names to checkoutlist and they are 
> correctly checkout after
> commit into $CVSROOT/CVSROOT. But I didn't find a way to modify their 
> attributes so that they
> are set executable *after* having been checkout, any idea?
...

You could explicitly invoke the interpreter in the commitinfo file; to
invoke "myscript.sh arg1 arg2" you would have to write "/bin/sh
myscript.sh arg1 arg2". This method should work with other scripting
languages, too.

Hope that helps

        Stephan