Re: Access rights to branches

2002-05-30 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 12:55:21 (+0200), Heikki Doeleman wrote: ] > Subject: Access rights to branches > > Can anyone tell me what is, these days, the most straightforward solution to > this issue ? You'd say that something like this is wanted in many > organizations,

RE: Access rights to branches

2002-05-30 Thread Andy Baker
A simple commitinfo script (and related config file) works extremely well for us Andy -Original Message- From: Heikki Doeleman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 May 2002 11:55 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Access rights to branches Some 2 years ago a Shem Mazur asked

Access rights to branches

2002-05-30 Thread Heikki Doeleman
Some 2 years ago a Shem Mazur asked this list about restricting access to particular branches. There were various replies that didn't seem very conclusive.   For example, I have a main branch where I allow anyone to check things in, and I have a release branch where I want to restrict chec

Re: access rights to branches

2000-11-01 Thread Laird Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > When might the patch referred to below make it into a future CVS > release? Probably about the same time that the cvs edit -c patch does. :-( Cheers, Laird -- W: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / P: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.amherst.edu/~ljnelson/ Good, cheap, fast: pick tw

RE: access rights to branches

2000-11-01 Thread Chuck . Irvine
When might the patch referred to below make it into a future CVS release? Thanks Chuck Irvine Sprint -Original Message- From: chris.cameron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 1:58 PM To: ljnelson; smazur Cc: info-cvs Subject: RE: access rights to branches On

RE: access rights to branches

2000-10-31 Thread Chris Cameron
On Wednesday, November 01, 2000 1:43 AM, Laird Nelson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Shem Mazur wrote: > > I have a CVS user who continues to checkout modules or update files from > > the wrong branches. Can I restrict her ability to update from > > particular branches or main trunk? > > Wha

Re: access rights to branches

2000-10-31 Thread Laird Nelson
"Derek R. Price" wrote: > > Laird Nelson wrote: > > > That said, if you know that your user will never try to force a commit > > using the -r switch (don't know how you'd know this, but most users > > don't use this flag), then you can write a commitinfo script that will > > check the old revisi

Re: access rights to branches

2000-10-31 Thread Laird Nelson
Andrew Gilmartin wrote: > What would be useful to us is a pre-commit check that made sure the user can > revise a given file and given branch or mainline. For example, > > # user file development-line > * #none #none > *

RE: access rights to branches

2000-10-31 Thread Andrew Gilmartin
> Can I restrict her ability to update from > particular branches or main trunk? We have a similar issue in that we need to restrict who can update which files on the mainline and (sometimes branches). There was some discussion of this recently and the general approach taken was to implement a pr

Re: access rights to branches

2000-10-31 Thread Derek R. Price
Laird Nelson wrote: > That said, if you know that your user will never try to force a commit > using the -r switch (don't know how you'd know this, but most users > don't use this flag), then you can write a commitinfo script that will > check the old revision number and reject access based on it

Re: access rights to branches

2000-10-31 Thread Noel L Yap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2000.10.30 20:41:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Noel L Yap) Subject: Re: access rights to branches * $ from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at "31-Oct:12:31pm" | sed "1,$s/^/* /" * * * Hi, * * I have a CVS user who continues to checkout modules or update files fr

Re: access rights to branches

2000-10-31 Thread Laird Nelson
Shem Mazur wrote: > I have a CVS user who continues to checkout modules or update files from > the wrong branches. Can I restrict her ability to update from > particular branches or main trunk? What the various other replies were trying (somewhat unhelpfully :-)) to tell you is no, not with CVS

Re: access rights to branches

2000-10-30 Thread Dennis Jones
Or train her to use CVS correctly...   - Dennis - Original Message - From: richard offer To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 5:41 PM Subject: Re: access rights to branches * $ from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at "31-Oct:12:31pm" |

Re: access rights to branches

2000-10-30 Thread richard offer
* $ from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at "31-Oct:12:31pm" | sed "1,$s/^/* /" * * * Hi, * * I have a CVS user who continues to checkout modules or update files from * the wrong branches. Can I restrict her ability to update from * particular branches or main trunk? The only thing I can find about * access

access rights to branches

2000-10-30 Thread Shem Mazur
Hi, I have a CVS user who continues to checkout modules or update files from the wrong branches. Can I restrict her ability to update from particular branches or main trunk? The only thing I can find about access rights with CVS is to do with Unix file permission this is fine if you want to