Fw: [cvsnt] Re: CVSNT incompatibility with older servers

Wed Oct 12 18:10:34 BST 2005

I double checked that my loginfo script does not hang. I have a loginfo
file with a line that looks like this:

DEFAULT $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/fix_loginfo.sh %s %V %v $CVSROOT

and fix_loginfo.sh looks like this:

#!/bin/bash

(echo ""; id; echo $1 $2 $3; date) >> $4/CVSROOT/commitlog

this essentially does the same thing as the old configuration (the one
commented out in the default config that we used to use in 2.0.58d) and it
works on the command line without fail. It also works when doing most cvs
functions, logging to the commitlog and everything. It fails when I try to
do a "cvs add" command on a folder. If I replace the loginfo file contents
with something like:

DEFAULT echo "test"

I see the word "test" show up before a folder gets added.

My questions are, what happens to %s %V and %v when a folder is added? Why
is the loginfo script being called at all when folders aren't versioned?
and lastly, can anyone post what they are using for their loginfo script so
we can compare?

Thanks!

Brian

             "Bo Berglund"                                                 
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                                       incompatibility with older servers  

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Subject: Re: Fw: [cvsnt] Re: CVSNT incompatibility with older servers

Anyone have any suggestions on this? Where should I start looking?

Just to recap, if I put anything at all in the loginfo file, I can't do a
cvs add of a directory. The add actually goes through the server properly,
but the client hangs during the process (I used a couple of different
clients and all exhibit the same behavior). This is no good from an end
user standpoint. We have a fairly generic install, so I'm not sure where to
begin with this.

Help?

Brian

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I checked the behaviour of cvs add in several different ways with or
without
embedded spaces in the directory and file names and I could not get it to
show the symptoms you relay. I am now on 2115.

Note that if you have a loginfo file thta contains nothing (everything is
commented out) and it works, then you uncomment one line and it stops
working, I would immediately suspect the uncommented line!

You can be assured that the loginfo handling does work, but if the process
that is started from loginfo hangs then so will cvs.

/Bo