Re: permissions on branch

[Shubhabrata Sengupta]

Well I have to stay back at office a little bit longer, so I though of sending the script now. I have attached a korn shell script with this mail.

 

Here's what you should do with it.

 

a) Check out the CVSROOT directory from your CVS repository

 

b) Copy this script over the CVSROOT directory and give it execute permission for all

 

c) Modify the script as per your requirements - should be easy

 

d) Modify the checkoutlist file to have an entry for the script and check in the new checkoutlist file

 

e) Add and checkin the script

 

f) Make an entry in your commitinfo file for this script and check it in

 

Your are done now - hopefully things will work.

 

Thanks

 

Shubho

-----Original Message-----
From: Nils Jakobson <address@hidden>
To: Shubhabrata Sengupta <address@hidden>
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: permissions on branch

How you mean this, the CVS/Entries are on the client side. I'm using RedHat Linux as repository server

with WinCVS clients. I have to intercept the commit somehow thru wrapper or similar and then simply

refuse the commit if some condition is met. I dont know how exactly CVS internals work, but please send

me the scrip.

 

Thanks!

-Nils Jakobson

SWH Technology

----- Original Message -----

From: Shubhabrata Sengupta

To: Nils Jakobson ; address@hidden

Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 2:38 PM

Subject: Re: permissions on branch

You can do that by writing a script which parses the CVS/Entries file for the branch info and then restrict the checkin if the branch falls in your restricted list.

 

You would need to plug this script into the commitinfo file, since the name of the file to be checked in would be passed to this script which you would use to parse the CVS/Entries for the branch info.

 

You might also like to put this script into some subdirectory of the CVSROOT directory and put an entry in the checkoutlist file so that a copy of the script is always checked out as soon as you checkin any changes to this script.

 

I can send you a sample script if you need one.

 

Thanks

 

Shubho

-----Original Message-----
From: Nils Jakobson <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden <address@hidden>
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 4:58 PM
Subject: permissions on branch

 

Hello, maybe this already has been discussed and there is solution.

What I'm looking for is how to set permissions on specific branch names,

i mean, make some branches read-only. This is necessery because

it happens that wincvs users perform commits where they should not.

I believe this can be scripted in the CVS, but how and from where to

invoke it? It could be great to have config file with list of branch_names

to be treated as read-only.

Its more the development organization problem, but still.

 

-Nils Jakobson

SWH Technology

 

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