RE: Preventing "Dirty" Checkins

[Jim.Hyslop]

Maarten de Boer wrote:

> > One catch I can see with this approach is the platform. For 
> example, our
> > development platform is Windows using Microsoft Visual 
> Studio, and our
> > repository is on a Solaris machine.
> 
> So, the testing machine could be Windows with Visual, which 
> could compile,
> test, and move the "compiles-correctly" tag.
But that's a different approach from what was suggested. The suggested
approach was a commitinfo script. Commitinfo runs *only* on the server.

I'm not saying the suggested approach was the best, or even workable. I'm
just pointing out a potential problem with the suggestion.

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