Re: Getting user id when committing?

[Kaz Kylheku]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 address@hidden wrote:

> I need to write a script that maps a cvs/unix user id
> to a bugzilla user id. I know CVS knows the user that
> "cvs commits" a change. How do I get this info? Is it
> the %s variable?

If you use proper Unix accounts for your CVS users, then your
commitinfo script can simply look at the effective user ID of its
process, for instance using the ``id'' command.

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