RE: Block a file by Commitinfo?

Thanks for your reply. It's the lack of detailed examples in ximbiot or many cvs manuals that have me confused. What I'm not clear about is that could I write fully qualifies shell scripts into cvs' reserved files?

 

I need an example please.

 

e.g.

ALL thumbs*?????

 

> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Block a file by Commitinfo?
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:21:53 -0700
> CC: [email protected]
> 
> Your commitinfo script is given a list of paths to files about to be 
> committed. Check each file in that list against your naming 
> conventions. Exit with a non-zero status if any of them fail to meet 
> your requirements.
> 
> This will cause the entire commit to fail, and the user will have rm 
> their additions before the commit will succeed.
> 
> It would be better if CVS had an addinfo capability, though...
> 
> On Jul 14, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Rez P wrote:
> 
> > Hello everyone
> >
> > Is there any way to prevent users or developers from uploading and 
> > checking in certain files into cvs? I was reading the somewhat 
> > ambiguous examples on ximbiot and doesn't look I could do this. I 
> > would like to block Windows thumbs.db and desktop.ini files from 
> > uploading to the server.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Rez
> >
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