Re: a commit script

[Larry Jones]

Mark D. Baushke writes:
>       
> > * The line of the commitinfo file that is calling your program
> > might help to determine if all the arguments make sense.
> >  > ALL /usr/local/src/cvsssupport/commit.branch ${USER}
> 
> I don't understand why you don't just use $ENV{'USER'} inside your perl
> script to get the same value as the environment's ${USER}, but what you
> have should work.

Because ${USER} in the administrative files is a CVS internal variable
that contains the *CVS* username whereas the ${USER} environment
variable contains the *sysem* username CVS is running as.  When using
pserver, they can be different.

-Larry Jones

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