Re: commitinfo documentation

[Derek Robert Price]

Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

> It would also be very helpful if more information was available to
> scripts run via commitinfo, such as previous/new revision numbers, the
> branch being affected, etc.  The branch information would be
> especially helpful since it can reasonably play a part in
> authorization checks for commits, which is part of the stated
> intention of commitinfo scripts.
>  

This has been under discussion for a long time, and though this is asked 
for frequently, no one seems to be willing to help test even though I've 
already written a patch.  You can find more information, including the 
patch, here:

   <http://ccvs.cvshome.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=60>

Unfortunately, the patch was written to apply to 1.11, so it might take 
a little tweaking to make it work with 1.11.2.  Like I said, I've been 
trying to get help on this for awhile.  The patch seems to work well, 
but it was a pretty major overhaul and I don't want ot commit it to the 
main tree until it gets tested on a few more systems.  The second patch 
attached to issue #60 is the same one with some extra code to make more 
information available to the taginfo hook.  The method should be 
extensible to expanding the information available to other hooks.

If you are really interested, there's a link in the issue above to:

   <http://ccvs.cvshome.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=25>

That issue discusses an even more complete overhaul and contains some 
patches on the way to that end, but they require more work than issue #60.

Derek

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