Re: restated questions about watch/notify

[Matthew M. Ogilvie]

> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 10:03:15 +0100 (BST)
> From: Rob Clack <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: restated questions about watch/notify
> 
> 
> OK, I understand better about CVS keywords now. However, I still have
> questions about CVS watch.  I've left my original text attached to this.
> 
> I don't want email whenever anyone edits any watched file, just the
> following:  if I edit a file, then Fred edits it, I want to know and I
> want him to know that I'm already editing it.  That's what my perl script
> was supposed to achieve.
> 
> Ideally, someone can tell me how to set up CVS to do this, then I can 
> throw the perl script away.  
> 
> If not, I assume I trigger the perl script via the notify file, so is
> there a way to pass the name of the relevant file in as a parameter?
> 
> Rob
> 
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I beleive the filename is in the message that is sent in via stdin
to the script.  A quick regular expression could probably extract
it.

If you want an example of a working script you can customize, you
could look at doNotify, available at:
http://cvsenhancements.sourceforge.net/
You might also want accumMail (same location).

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