RE: Block a file by Commitinfo?
Rez P <[email protected]>
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Thanks for your reply. I'll play around and see what I'll come up with. > From: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:23:40 -0700 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Block a file by Commitinfo? > > On Jul 15, 7:40 am, Rez P <[email protected]> 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. > > Hello Rez, > > There are many pre-commit validations that one can think of. > One of them is banning commit of specific files. Another is checking > for unwanted content (e.g. -d debug flag for Perl CGI files). > > There is more than one way you can choose for doing this: > 1) Add a line in commitinfo per each banned file > 2) From commitinfo call a script or application with the directory > path & name of commited file (and perhaps committed version), and let > it do the validation. This is the method we use in Jungo. > > HTH, > -- > Yaron Yogev > IT Software Developer > Jungo Software Technologies > _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_BR_life_in_synch_062009