[cvsnt] how to use chacl?

[Mike Wake]

Hi Bo,

You need to explicitly state nowrite,nocreate,notag,nocontrol as well.
So give this command a try

cvs chacl -a read,nowrite,nocreate,notag,nocontrol -r Branch_Test -m 
"branch locked for commits"



Bo Berglund wrote:
> I tried to duplicate the behaviour I had seen on the cvsnt repository
> by setting the acl to read for a folder on a branch.
> However when I then tried to commit a changed file on that branch
> nothing was blocked, the commit went through just fine.
> So I believe that I am using the chacl command wrong.
> This is what I did:
> cvs chacl -a read -r Branch_Test -m "branch locked for commits"
> TestFolder
> ***** CVS exited normally with code 0 *****
> 
> setting ACL for directory TestFolder
> 
> Then I updated the folder to that branch (it was not previously on the
> branch).
> Next I edited a file inside the folder and on the branch specified in
> chacl and committed:
> 
> cvs commit -m "Trying to commit to a readonly branch" -- TestFile.txt
> (in directory F:\Engineering\Projects\Bosse\ModuleXX\TestFolder\)
> Checking in TestFile.txt;
> /KORVkiosk/ModuleXX/TestFolder/TestFile.txt,v  <--  TestFile.txt
> new revision: 1.1.2.1; previous revision: 1.1
> done
> 
> ***** CVS exited normally with code 0 *****
> 
> Apparently I did not manage to lock down the branch after all...
> How am I supposed to do this, there are no examples in the cvs help
> file.
> 
> 
> /Bo
> (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)
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