CVS Commit Blocking

When editing source files checked out from CVS I sometimes want to prevent them from going back in to source control without further edits. Until now I've just used // FIXME comments and have tried to remember to grep for FIXMEs before committing the files back.

Problem is others use FIXME comments, and sometimes I forget to grep. So I've tweaked our CVSROOT files to prevent custom FIXME tags from going in to source control.

I appended this line to CVSROOT/commitinfo:

ALL $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/checkforry4an

Added this line to CVSROOT/checkoutlist:

checkforry4an Tell Ry4an he broke something with checkforry4an

and crated a file named CVSROOT/checkforry4an containing:

#!/bin/sh

BASE=$1
shift

for thefile in "$@" ; do
    if echo $thefile | grep -v Foreign | grep -q '.java$' ; then
        if grep -s -q 'FIXME RY4AN' $thefile ; then
            echo found a FIXME RY4AN in $thefile
            exit 1
        fi
    fi
done

Now when I put a // FIXME RY4AN comment into a source file commits break until I remove it.

Published: Apr 11, 2005, 5:00:00 AM - Modified: Jan 27, 2011, 3:41:24 AM by Ry4an Brase
Tags: java, ideas-built, software
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