[cvsnt] Re: Commitinfo trigger script data?

[John Kinson]

Thanks Tony, so all that's needed now (apart from rename information) is 
for the commitinfo and verifymsg manual pages to mention that the 
scripts are invoked in a temporary directory containing the tree of 
files being committed, and that a script can determine revision 
information and whether a file has been added, modified or removed by 
querying the local CVS/Entries files directly if needed, as covered in 
http://www.cvsnt.org/manual/Working-directory-storage.html.

Cheers

JK

Tony Hoyle wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:59:00 +0100, John Kinson <cvs at yellowradio.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>- The CVS/Entries file in the temporary sandbox can be used to obtain 
>>information about the files being committed.  Each line in the file has 
>>5 fields with the following format:
>>
>>	/<filename>/<old rev>/<old timestamp>/?/T<sticky tag>
>>
>><old timestamp> is in GMT (UTC?).  Not sure what's in the fourth field, 
>>it's always been empty in my experiments.  <old rev> is 0 for new files, 
>>negative for removed files (with the absolute value equal to the 
>>revision removed), and positive for modified files.
> 
> 
> http://www.cvsnt.org/manual/Working-directory-storage.html
> 
> For a client-side script the repository information is always local.
> 
> 
>>- The new revision number for a file, if needed in a trigger script, can 
>>be predicted by looking up the branch tag in the repository ,v file as 
>>necessary (won't go into it here, but it seems straightforward enough).
> 
> 
> It's probably not a good idea to predict revision numbers (the user
> may have specified -r).  It's not useful information prior to a commit
> actually happening though.
> 
> 
>>I've not considered what happens when files are renamed though, so this 
>>information may need to be revised accordingly.
> 
> 
> That information is in the 'Renames' file, but I've not put that in
> the documentation yet.
> 
> Tony
> 
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