RE: branch access control

[Frederic Brehm]

At 01:33 PM 9/3/2002, Douglas Finkle wrote:
> > At 01:06 PM 9/3/2002, Douglas Finkle wrote:
> > >Yes, you're right... you can use either of the two methods
> > >mentioned, 'cvs status', or the Entries file.  Still, both
> > >of these methods are client side and their success depends
> > >upon software (e.g. Perl) that may or may not be present on
> > >client machines.
> >
> > The script named in commitinfo executes on the server side.
>
> Sure, but what about the data that the script looks at?  On the
> server side of things there is no CVS/Entries file, and 'cvs status'
> will fail if there's no checked out sources.

Somebody said:
> The commitinfo script is running in a directory where the
> files given on
> the command line reside as local files. There is also a copy
> of the CVS
> directory present and the CVS/Entries file contains the
> branch information
> if you want to parse it. There are two ways you could get
> that information.

I believe that is a true statement for both client/server and local modes.


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