Re: Newbie CVS commitinfo question

[Greg A. address@hidden (Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc.)]

[ On Friday, July 12, 2002 at 16:54:15 (-0700), Bryan Bunch wrote: ]
> Subject: Newbie CVS commitinfo question
>
>      I have a quick question about using the commitinfo admin file to 
> perform a source-file check before commiting. Mabey the tool I should be 
> using is Ageis (I've seen that project a lot in the archives), but what I 
> want to do is have a script called at the beginning of the commit process 
> which takes the following action:

No, you really do want to be using Aegis.

        http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/aegis.html

Trying to do what you want to do with CVS is only going to end up being
a bad hack.

>      So my initial thought is "why shouldn't the same user that has a global 
> lock on the whole repository also be able to execute read-only operations 
> like update or checkout that don't modify the repository's state?" My guess 
> is that it's simply easier to do lock management if locks aren't 
> "same-user-re-entrant" and no other cvs operations are allowed once the 
> commit starts.

What does user identity have to do with repository integrity?  The
repoisitory is not likely in a consistent state when it's locked.  It
doesn't matter who locked it or who's trying to access it.

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