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

[Tony Hoyle]

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