RE: How to lock CVS for check-in

2001-10-15 Thread Jerry Nairn
From: David Everly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 5:03 PM cvs -n stat filename seems only to work from a 'sandbox' point of view. How would I use that in the context of a commitinfo script? In local mode, the commands in commitinfo have direct access to your

Re: How to lock CVS for check-in

2001-10-12 Thread Jake Colman
GAW == Greg A Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GAW Far worse are operations which add, delete, or move, tags; but as GAW I've mentioned several times again recently it would be very easy to GAW add an additional access control for those kinds of things, at least GAW on a

Re: How to lock CVS for check-in

2001-10-12 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On , October 12, 2001 at 11:30:07 (-0400), Jake Colman wrote: ] Subject: Re: How to lock CVS for check-in So please explain how you would prevent access to specific branches for specific users? I'm not sure why you think that this is not a reasonable thing to want to try to do? Simply

Re: How to lock CVS for check-in

2001-10-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, October 11, 2001 at 11:11:21 (+0530), Shubhabrata Sengupta wrote: ] Subject: Re: How to lock CVS for check-in At least in pserver access it is and I think it is also available in for local repository access as well. I am not sure about :ext: access though. I agree that its

RE: How to lock CVS for check-in

2001-10-11 Thread Pyatt, Scott
PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 9:58 AM To: CVS-II Discussion Mailing List Subject: Re: How to lock CVS for check-in [ On Thursday, October 11, 2001 at 11:11:21 (+0530), Shubhabrata Sengupta wrote: ] Subject: Re: How to lock CVS for check-in At least in pserver access it is and I think

Re: How to lock CVS for check-in

2001-10-11 Thread Jake Colman
GAW == Greg A Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GAW [ On Thursday, October 11, 2001 at 08:24:11 (+0530), Shubhabrata GAW Sengupta wrote: ] Subject: Re: How to lock CVS for check-in Wondering why this enhancement is needed in the commitinfo interface when you can always

Re: How to lock CVS for check-in

2001-10-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On , October 11, 2001 at 14:41:17 (-0400), Jake Colman wrote: ] Subject: Re: How to lock CVS for check-in So what do _you_ recommend for implementing branch locking? I don't recommend implementing branch locking in CVS at all. Anyone who thinks they need it probably has far larger problems

Re: How to lock CVS for check-in

2001-10-11 Thread James Youngman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg A. Woods) writes: [ On , October 11, 2001 at 14:41:17 (-0400), Jake Colman wrote: ] Subject: Re: How to lock CVS for check-in So what do _you_ recommend for implementing branch locking? I don't recommend implementing branch locking in CVS at all. Anyone who

RE: How to lock CVS for check-in

2001-10-11 Thread Pyatt, Scott
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 1:46 PM To: Jake Colman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to lock CVS for check-in [ On , October 11, 2001 at 14:41:17 (-0400), Jake Colman wrote: ] Subject: Re: How to lock CVS for check-in So what do _you_ recommend

Re: How to lock CVS for check-in

2001-10-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On , October 11, 2001 at 22:27:38 (+0100), James Youngman wrote: ] Subject: Re: How to lock CVS for check-in Speaking as someone who recently came very close to having to use cvs co -p to undo someone else's mistake (they were workign on the wrong branch by mistake) I disagree

RE: How to lock CVS for check-in

2001-10-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, October 11, 2001 at 15:14:47 (-0700), Pyatt, Scott wrote: ] Subject: RE: How to lock CVS for check-in I don't know your environment, but branch locking is a common mechanism for allowing read-only access to a branch. Wel, DUH! :-) It's really quite useful and given

Re: How to lock CVS for check-in

2001-10-11 Thread Shubhabrata Sengupta
to accept such patches. Thanks Shubho -Original Message- From: Greg A. Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CVS-II Discussion Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, October 11, 2001 10:38 PM Subject: Re: How to lock CVS for check-in [ On Thursday, October 11, 2001 at 11:11:21 (+0530

RE: How to lock CVS for check-in

2001-10-11 Thread Jerry Nairn
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 10:11 PM [ On Thursday, October 11, 2001 at 08:24:11 (+0530), Shubhabrata Sengupta wrote: ] Wondering why this enhancement is needed in the commitinfo interface when you can always get the branch

RE: How to lock CVS for check-in

2001-10-10 Thread Pyatt, Scott
-Original Message- From: Brad L. Chisholm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 1:15 PM To: David Everly Cc: Brad L. Chisholm; Larry Jones; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to lock CVS for check-in You can selectively lock branches, but only

Re: How to lock CVS for check-in

2001-10-10 Thread Shubhabrata Sengupta
]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, October 11, 2001 9:07 AM Subject: RE: How to lock CVS for check-in Is CVS/Entries available to the commitinfo script when the repository is on a Unix server and the developer is working on an NT client (pserver

Re: How to lock CVS for check-in

2001-10-10 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, October 11, 2001 at 08:24:11 (+0530), Shubhabrata Sengupta wrote: ] Subject: Re: How to lock CVS for check-in Wondering why this enhancement is needed in the commitinfo interface when you can always get the branch information out of the CVS/Entries file which is always

Re: How to lock CVS for check-in

2001-10-10 Thread Shubhabrata Sengupta
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, October 11, 2001 10:47 AM Subject: Re: How to lock CVS for check-in [ On Thursday, October 11, 2001 at 08:24:11 (+0530), Shubhabrata Sengupta wrote: ] Subject: Re: How to lock CVS for check-in Wondering why this enhancement is needed in the commitinfo interface