From owner-cvs-all Mon Nov 30 23:33:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA26125 for cvs-all-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 23:33:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA26120 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 23:33:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id XAA12017; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 23:32:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com( 207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V2.0) id xma012013; Mon, 30 Nov 98 23:32:15 -0800 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id XAA25873; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 23:32:13 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199812010732.XAA25873@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: ports tree FROZEN now In-Reply-To: <199812010631.RAA03547@cimlogic.com.au> from John Birrell at "Dec 1, 98 05:31:50 pm" To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 23:32:13 -0800 (PST) Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk John Birrell writes: > > Hmm.. it would be nice if it were possible to "lock" a subtree of > > the CVS repository, perhaps by sticking a file ".cvs-lock" or > > something directly in the corresponding repository directory.. > > then CVS could check for this file and, if found, return an > > error and print out the file when a commit was attempted.. > > How would you allow authorised people to commit? No point locking > out the release engineer/s too. 8-) That would be the next question.. but it could be solved too if needed.. maybe their userid's could be listed in the file. Anyway, just an idea.. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message