RE: Commit script

[Jim.Hyslop]

address@hidden wrote:
> Jim.Hyslop writes:
> >
> > We must have configured our server differently - we only 
> get one prompt per
> > checkin command, no matter how many files or directories 
> are involved.
> 
> There's no such configuration option.  If you don't get a prompt for
> each directory, you've not running a standard CVS release.
I hate to disagree with you, Larry, but looking at commit.c it seems that
the standard client behaviour is a single prompt per commit:

#ifdef CLIENT_SUPPORT
    if (current_parsed_root->isremote)
    {
...
        /*
         * We do this once, not once for each directory as in normal CVS.
         * The protocol is designed this way.  This is a feature.
         */
        if (use_editor)
            do_editor (".", &saved_message, (char *)NULL, find_args.ulist);


So, it appears that the prompt-per-directory behaviour only applies on local
CVS systems.

-- 
Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com)
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts)