Re: befuddled: writing a cvs logger

[Larry Jones]

stephan writes:
> 
> i'm befuddled: i'm trying to write a cvs logging tool, similar to the 
> CVSROOT/log and log_accum samples which come with CVS. i cannot, for the 
> life of me, figure out how those two apps run the cvs status commands, 
> since there is no cvs tree for them to work in. When i try to manually 
> reproduce what those scripts are doing i (rightfully) get errors about no 
> CVSROOT set, etc. How does one run a cvs status command on the server 
> itself?

Those scripts *are* run in a working directory.  In client/server mode,
the server creates a shadow copy of the user's working directory on the
server and the loginfo script is run in that directory.

-Larry Jones

I hate being good. -- Calvin