Re: Disabling -n option to commit/rtag

[George Schlitz]

I definintely can trust the developers, and would do that, but unfortunately
some of the IDE's use the -n option on their own sometimes.  My specific
example is Jalindi Igloo, which we are using with MS Visual C++.  It is a
great tool, but sometimes it uses the -n option....thus bypassing my
scripts.  I am hoping that CVS integration with some of our other IDE's
(Borland JBuilder, Forte, Websphere, et. al.) don't also use this option...
If they do, I may have to try to modify the source...  Any other suggestions
will be greatly appreciated though!!

Thanks
George

"Joi Ellis" <address@hidden> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 address@hidden wrote:
>
> > > Ouch.  All I want to do is ensure that commitinfo is run for every
commit,
> > > and that taginfo is run for every tag.  There is no way to ensure this
> > > (since a client using -n forces ignore of these files)?
> > >
> > I don't understand here.  The -n flag means not to do anything, and
> > therefore I don't see why commitinfo should be run.
>
> cvs commit -n
>
> -n is a common client option that says "don't run modules commands".
>
> That's what the original poster wants to avoid.  I'd probably hack
> the source and remove -n as a common client option.
>
> This may cause more grief than just trusting the developers, tho.
>
> >
> > If you type
> > cvs commit ...
> > you are committing something, and the commitinfo will be run.
> >
> > If you type
> > cvs -n commit ...
>
> That's the common global -n, not the common client -n.
>
> > then you aren't committing anything, just going through the motions,
> > and no commitinfo should be run.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
>
> Sort of. ;)
>
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