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RE: verifymsg and branches
From: |
Christopher.Fouts |
Subject: |
RE: verifymsg and branches |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:26:38 -0500 |
Google for the "verifymsg script" thread on suggestions
how to get the "branch name" during a commit for the
verifymsg.
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>From: address@hidden
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>] On Behalf Of Matt Doar
>Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 3:04 PM
>To: address@hidden
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>Subject: verifymsg and branches
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>
>
>I understand how verifymsg can be used to check the text in a
>commit message. The problems is that I'd like to have
>different checks for different branches, and there is no
>"branch name" variable that I can see to pass into a script
>called from verifymsg.
>
>So I went to see how scripts such as cvs_acls and activitymail
>get their branch information. cvs_acls seems to parse each
>directory's CVS/Entries file on the client, and activitymail
>seems to get it from the stdin for commitinfo. But I can't
>pass the %l variable (the name of the file containing the
>commit message) to anything but verifymsg and editinfo, and I
>can't pass the same stdin to verifymsg.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>~Matt
>
>p.s. I suppose a two step process of checking the message and
>recording the results for all possible branches somewhere, and
>then modifying cvs_acls to check for an acceptable message
>once the branch is known might work. Bit hokey though.
>
>Environment: cvs server 1.12.9, older clients and SmartCVS 4.0
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