Re: Patches for cvs and cvslog

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Speaking of cvs and cvslog -- I think there must be something I'm not
> quite understanding about how cvs is supposed to work.

> Now, everything works fine when you have one project in your cvs
> repository.  But I've just added the Gmane project files to the
> repository, so that "gnus" and "gmane" are in the same $CVSROOT.  For
> the password file, I'm letting the Gmane users use a different user name
> ("gmane"), and I've chowned $CVSROOT/gmane to "gmane.gmane".  Is that
> how one is supposed to do it?

Well, normally CVS folks recommend a separate repository for each
project.  But yes, that should work too, and I've done it that way before
(albeit not through pserver).

> It seems to work OK, so perhaps it is the right way, but it seems a
> bit... odd.

CVS is really designed to have one repository per project, which is why
it's odd.

> And how does one make cvslog not emit log messages for "gmane", but
> still do it for "gnus"?

Change loginfo so that rather than having DEFAULT there, instead put:

^gnus/          <cvslog invocation>

replacing the <> bit with the invocation that you have now.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>