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Re: befuddled: writing a cvs logger
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Larry Jones |
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Re: befuddled: writing a cvs logger |
Date: |
Sun, 5 May 2002 14:12:59 -0400 (EDT) |
stephan writes:
>
> i'm befuddled: i'm trying to write a cvs logging tool, similar to the
> CVSROOT/log and log_accum samples which come with CVS. i cannot, for the
> life of me, figure out how those two apps run the cvs status commands,
> since there is no cvs tree for them to work in. When i try to manually
> reproduce what those scripts are doing i (rightfully) get errors about no
> CVSROOT set, etc. How does one run a cvs status command on the server
> itself?
Those scripts *are* run in a working directory. In client/server mode,
the server creates a shadow copy of the user's working directory on the
server and the loginfo script is run in that directory.
-Larry Jones
I hate being good. -- Calvin