RE: branch access control

[Douglas Finkle]

Yes, you're right... you can use either of the two methods
mentioned, 'cvs status', or the Entries file.  Still, both
of these methods are client side and their success depends
upon software (e.g. Perl) that may or may not be present on
client machines. 

I've yet to see a good reason why a patch that passes the
branch tag can't be incorporated into, for example, commit.c
so the rules can be implemented completely on the server side.

Maybe there's more to it than I'm seeing?

-D

> > hi,cvs doesnt pass branch information to commitinfo file,so you cant
> > use commitinfo for that.I had the same problem, and then solved with
> > writing a patch for access control. Available at
> > http://www.geocities.com/barissahin/
> 
> While it is true that the commitinfo script is not given any explicit
> arguments about the branch, this does not mean that you can 
> not find out
> this information.
> 
> The commitinfo script is running in a directory where the 
> files given on
> the command line reside as local files. There is also a copy 
> of the CVS
> directory present and the CVS/Entries file contains the 
> branch information
> if you want to parse it. There are two ways you could get 
> that information.
> 
> You may either write a script to 'manually' parse the CVS/Entries file
> something like the following perl script fragment:
> 
>   open(ENTRIES, $ENTRIES) || die("Cannot open $ENTRIES.\n");
>   while (<ENTRIES>) {
>     chomp;
>     # /file/ver/timestamp/options/tag_or_date
>     my($filename, $version,$ts,$opt,$tag) = split('/', substr($_, 1));
>     $cvsversion{$filename} = $version;
>     # the /^D/ date specification for a tag should not be 
> possible in a commit
>     # so ignore it
>     if ($tag eq '' || $tag =~ /^T/) {
>       $cvsbranch{$filename} = $tag;
>     }
>     $cvsoption{$filename} = $opt;
>   }
>   close(ENTRIES);
> 
> It should also be possible to do something like:
> 
>   cvs -Qn status filename
> 
> and parse the 'Sticky Tag:' line in your script.
> 
> This does not require any patches to cvs at all.
> 
>       -- Mark
> 
> > baris
> > 
> > --- address@hidden wrote:
> > ---------------------------------
> >  A simple question. Can I discover on which branch a file is being
> >committed from withina script run from the commitinfo file? 
> Basically,
> >I know how to apply per user/module access controls, but I would like
> >to extend this to include branch information so that certain 
> teams are
> >confinedto branches. We have in the past experienced code fixes being
> >applied to thewrong branch and it would be preferable for the
> >technology to help people avoidthat mistake in the future.
> 
> 
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