Hey everyone,
I appologize in advance if this posted question appears twice on the
list -- I initial posted it without joining (...my bad).
I have a quick question about using the commitinfo admin file to
perform a source-file check before commiting. Mabey the tool I should be
using is Ageis (I've seen that project a lot in the archives), but what I
want to do is have a script called at the beginning of the commit process
which takes the following action:
1. Copy all submitted files from the /tmp/cvs<process-number> directory into
a working directory on the CVS server associated with the user making the
commit (the newly commited files would replace any files currently in that
working directory).
2. Switch to that users working directory on the CVS server, and perform a
"cvs update -A -d" to get the any previously submitted updates from the head
of the repository.
3. Incrementally compile the whole project (this should result in only the
currently submitted files and any modified files since the last commit being
compiled).
4. Allow the commit to take place if the compile succeeds, or return a
non-zero result and fail if the compile fails.
This would be nice because it eliminates the problem of developers
accidentally forgetting to add/ commit files which prevents other developers
from being able to compile and test the project. It effectively guarantees
that the head of the codebase will compile.
The script to do this is straightforward -- and also doesn't work. It
fails because trying to execute a "cvs update -A -d" command into another
working directory on the server fails since the user trying to commit locks
the entire repository (the command just hangs there with a message like
..."trying to get lock from <user-name>").
So my initial thought is "why shouldn't the same user that has a global
lock on the whole repository also be able to execute read-only operations
like update or checkout that don't modify the repository's state?" My guess
is that it's simply easier to do lock management if locks aren't
"same-user-re-entrant" and no other cvs operations are allowed once the
commit starts.
Anyways, if someone has a solution to this problem, I'll worship you
like the software God/Godess you are! Also -- if for some reason I were to
think about jumping into the code and making locks "same-user-re-entrant"
during a commit, would anyone be interested in a source patch? Or is that a
waste of time?
---Bryan
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