[Python-Dev] New canonical location for PEPs (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
03 Apr 2002 09:28:17 +0200

Sean Reifschneider <jafo-python-dev@tummy.com> writes:

There is apparently a way that you can make CVS fire off some action when a commit is done... It looks like it might be possible with the "CVS/Checkin.prog". From the CVS man page:

CVS/Checkin.prog Name of program to run on `cvs commit'.

This is already used to send the commit message email. However, it is really hard to get this mechanism to update web pages on a different machine (especially under a different account than the committer's account). Leaving security aside, the commit program runs with the CVS lock still being hold by the committer. If the commit program tries to update a CVS tree on a different machine, you get a deadlock.

Regards Martin