[cvsnt] Re: CVSROOT/loginfo prob on 2.5.x

Georg Offner der.georg12 at 2k5.temporarily.de
Mon Nov 28 09:05:38 GMT 2005


Community technical support mailing list was retired 2010 and replaced with a professional technical support team. For assistance please contact: Pre-sales Technical support via email to sales@march-hare.com.


Be the example useful or not, it at least simply shows the described error, 
which would also occur if I used a script ;-)

Regards
 Georg

"Tony Hoyle" <tony.hoyle at march-hare.com> wrote in message 
news:dm7e3f$ol3$1 at paris.nodomain.org...
> Georg Offner wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I did some more investigation on that problem described one week ago:
>> it is not possible to execute any shell command or script from within 
>> CVSROOT/loginfo in any 2.5.x Linux (Suse 9.2) build.
>> Simple loginfo example: (echo %s) >> $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/commitlog
>
> That's not a useful example - the raw output needs to be processed by a 
> script anyway... you would never use redirection in a loginfo file.
>
> Writing a parser that can handle that kind of stuff is just not on the 
> roadmap for the minimal functionality that it gives.
>
> Tony 





More information about the cvsnt mailing list
Download the latest CVSNT, TortosieCVS, WinCVS etc. for Windows 8 etc.
@CVSNT on Twitter   CVSNT on Facebook