RE: Loginfo not failing commit.

[Jim.Hyslop]

Carter Thompson wrote:
> I have written a perl script to parse some log information from
> CVS.  However, from Karl Fogel's book, Open Source Development 
> with CVS, he states that any nonzero exit from a script/program 
> run by loginfo will fail the commit.  Unfortunately, this appears
> not to be true.
I think he may be confusing 'loginfo' with 'commitinfo' (or perhaps you
mis-read the book? I haven't read the book, so I can't comment). Loginfo is
not called until after the commit has completed:

http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.14/cvs_18.html#SEC165


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Jim Hyslop
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