Re: disable cvs commit and/or make repository read-only

[Todd Denniston]

Robert Dodier wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am considering converting an existing CVS repository to Subversion.
> After that I'd like to make it impossible to commit stuff to CVS
> to avoid heartbreak, confusion, etc.
>
> What is the standard practice for making a CVS repository read-only?
>
> I've searched this ng for ideas and didn't come up with anything clear
> to me.
> One idea was to modify the file system permissions but wouldn't
> it be better to do it through CVS itself? (Instead of letting CVS try
> to commit stuff and fail.)
>
> Anyway I welcome your comments.

file system permissions are the usual manner, set the directory permissions to 
read-only (note you'll need to do it inside to out :), this should be enough 
and it is well understood by the CVS crowd.

other things you can do is put the following line in the taginfo and 
commitinfo config files to prevent cvs from allowing commits and tags:
ALL /bin/false

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Todd Denniston
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