Locking a Branch

2005-05-09 Thread SUBRAMANIAN, SARAVANAN \(SBCSI\)
Hi I need to lock a Branch, so that no one can check out or check in some information into it. I don't have access to the CVS host machine, but I am connecting it through the CVS Binaries Please help me out with that. Thanks SARAVANAN SUBRMANIAN SCM Centrex Mate

Re: Locking a Branch

2005-05-09 Thread Jim Hyslop
SUBRAMANIAN, SARAVANAN (SBCSI) wrote: Hi I need to lock a Branch, so that no one can check out or check in some information into it. First of all, do you really need to lock the branch? Can you not trust your developers? I don't have access to the CVS host machine, but I am connecting it

Re: Locking the branch

2005-04-16 Thread Dennis Jones
a tag to identify the files for a release instead of locking the branch. But if you still must be able to lock the branch, for whatever reason, you can implement a pre-commit check in commitinfo to do that. Simply write a program or a script that determines whether to allow commits and have

Locking the branch

2005-04-15 Thread Vijay SP.
I have a requirement to lock a branch just before the release. I tried to browse thru the documentation and did get some idea. Has someone implemented it? If so could you please share the details? Thanx Vijay ___ Info-cvs mailing list

RE: Locking the branch

2005-04-15 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Vijay SP wrote: I have a requirement to lock a branch just before the release. I tried to browse thru the documentation and did get some idea. Has someone implemented it? If so could you please share the details? Get rid of the requirement. There is never any reason whatsoever for locking

Re: Locking the branch

2005-04-15 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vijay SP. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a requirement to lock a branch just before the release. I tried to browse thru the documentation and did get some idea. Has someone implemented it? You can do this with the contrib/cvs_acls file. Add

Re: Locking a branch

2002-08-27 Thread Jamie Wellnitz
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 02:44:24PM -0700, Kaz Kylheku wrote: On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Pat Young wrote: Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:12:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Pat Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [info-cvs] Locking a branch What is the best way to lock a branch

RE: Locking a branch

2002-08-27 Thread Douglas Finkle
What is the best way to lock a branch? Should I use How about: ``Please don't commit to this branch until told otherwise, or you will be fired on grounds of inability to follow instructions.'' Why work with people that require a piece of software to stop them from doing

Re: Locking a branch

2002-08-27 Thread Larry Jones
Douglas Finkle writes: Some time ago John Cavanaugh wrote a patch for commit.c, bit I don't think it was ever incorporated-- don't know why. As John himself noted, the patch is not ready for prime time -- it does not include documentation updates and it is not upward compatible. In

RE: Locking a branch

2002-08-27 Thread Douglas Finkle
Some time ago John Cavanaugh wrote a patch for commit.c, but I don't think it was ever incorporated-- don't know why. As John himself noted, the patch is not ready for prime time -- it does not include documentation updates and it is not upward compatible. In addition, I haven't

Re: Locking a branch

2002-08-27 Thread Mark D. Baushke
Douglas Finkle writes: Some time ago John Cavanaugh wrote a patch for commit.c, but I don't think it was ever incorporated-- don't know why. Perhaps since this patch is more than 3 years old it could be time to revisit this? (ground swell beginning now ;-) I do not see a strong

Locking a branch

2002-08-26 Thread Pat Young
What is the best way to lock a branch? Should I use the admin -l option? I tried this and couldn't get it to work. I have also seen some previous post suggesting to create a #commitinfo file. We would like to be able to lock a complete branch, so that developers can not accidentally commit

Re: Locking a branch

2002-08-26 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Pat Young wrote: Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:12:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Pat Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [info-cvs] Locking a branch What is the best way to lock a branch? Should I use How about: ``Please don't commit to this branch until told

Re: Locking a branch

2002-08-26 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Pat Young wrote: Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:12:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Pat Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [info-cvs] Locking a branch What is the best way to lock a branch? Should I use How about

Re: Locking a branch

2002-08-26 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Paul Sander wrote: Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:12:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Pat Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [info-cvs] Locking a branch What is the best way to lock a branch? Should I use How about: ``Please don't commit to this branch

Re: Locking a branch

2002-08-26 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Paul Sander wrote: Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:12:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Pat Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [info-cvs] Locking a branch What is the best way to lock a branch? Should I use How