Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: /subversions/sourceforge/src/savannah

[Hugo Gayosso]

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address@hidden (Mark H. Weaver) writes:

> > The reason
> > I did that was to be able to commit changes made directly in the installed
> > tree (which is not possible with your change). 
> 
> Are you sure?  Is it really not possible for root to commit to any
> local CVS repository?  I'm very surprised as this, but I haven't done
> the experiment myself.  What is it that prevents this from working?


CVS doesn't allow you to do commits as root, if you take a look at the
source of CVS you will find the code, and a comment that explains it.

But in personal experiments, I have discovered that if you login as
your mortal user, and then "su -" and then try to do "cvs commit" it
works but takes as the author your mortal user. It doesn't work from
within Emacs though.

Greetings,
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