From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 22 22:21:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA03305 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 22:21:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA03299 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 22:21:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA13693; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 23:21:02 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id XAA20023; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 23:20:54 -0700 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 23:20:54 -0700 Message-Id: <199801230620.XAA20023@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange CVS behavior In-Reply-To: References: <199801230459.VAA19866@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > You didn't answer my question. Is it installed where the files in > > CVSROOT expects it. > > Sorry. I thought I did. none of the installation changed. A stock installation doesn't necessarily install perl where it's expected. (Even including the port) > > So, your machine isn't named freefall, so it doesn't matter that it's > > the FreeBSD tree or sources. > > > > The commitcheck doesn't/shouldn't allow connections except from > > freefall. The commit script sends email to people, and other > > misc. things are assumed if you use the stock files in the FreeBSD CVS > > tree. > > Oh, I understand that. I am not attempting to commit any of this. When I > use ``cvs add'' for my stuff, I get the benefit that ``cvs update'' and > ``cvs diff'' understand my desire for harnmoneous source tree and merge and > diff the entire delta my project does. I started doing this at the > suggestion of either Justin or David. And it works very well for my needs. cvs add doesn't do anything (really) unless you do a cvs commit, which requires (minor) modifications to the files in CVSROOT. Nate