Re: cvs diff on repository

[Jenn Vesperman]

On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 03:47, Larry Jones wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
> > 
> > cvs rdiff: [10:00:50] waiting for automan's lock in
> > /home/cvs_automation/CVSROOT
> > 
> > It will loop there until I Ctrl-C it.  Apparently rdiff doesn't like to
> > be run from within loginfo.  Any way around it?
> 
> Use the -n global option to ignore the locks.

Alternatively, background the cvs rdiff command in the script. The
commit is waiting for the cvs rdiff to finish (because it's called in a
*info script), but the rdiff is waiting on the commit's lock.

If you background the rdiff, the commit won't be waiting for it anymore.


Jenn V.
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