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

[Georg Offner]

Be the example useful or not, it at least simply shows the described error, 
which would also occur if I used a script ;-)

Regards
 Georg

"Tony Hoyle" <tony.hoyle at march-hare.com> wrote in message 
news:dm7e3f$ol3$1 at paris.nodomain.org...
> 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