Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:58:46 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proposal: simple cvs mod to handle shared checked-out source trees Message-ID: <199812022258.OAA19488@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199812022200.OAA19221@apollo.backplane.com> <199812022209.PAA08774@mt.sri.com>
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:I do. It's a very site-specific change that can easily be worked around
:by providing a wrapper for cvs for the shared folks.
:
:#!/bin/sh
:umask 000
:/usr/local/bin/cvs
:
:The CVS program is complex enough already, and I'm 99.9% sure the CVS
:maintainers would never accept a feature such as this when it's so easy
:to work-around.
:
:Nate
Well, I generally do not consider that sort of wrapper to be a
reasonable permanent solution, especially in a multi-user environment.
We have 20+ people who need modify-access to various company-wide
configuration files. If I replace /usr/bin/cvs with a wrapper I screw
up some of the traditional source projects (where we don't want relaxed
group perms). If I put the wrapper somewhere else I have to make sure
that everyone using it points their paths to it, which creates serious
account maintainence issues.
I use shell wrappers for relatively complex things, like getting JDK's
to work or supporting multiple JDK revs on a single system (which you need
to do if you want to write & test Java that is browser-compatible), but
things are a whole lot more clean when a commonly used (or potentially
commonly used) feature can be integrated into a program.
In this case, cvs already does chmod munging when dealing with
the backend archive to handle shared CVS repositories. This just extends
it to the frontend to handle shared working data sets. I try to be
forward-looking. While CVS/RCS has traditionally been used to manage
source trees, I see their use in managing active system configurations
more and more these days, including our own use of it. It would seem
to be a useful feature so...
-Matt
Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet
Communications & God knows what else.
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