CVSAddons

Enabling automatic CVS-checkin email notifications, remote symlink management, etc

Owner: Ken Manheimer

Here are instructions for hooking in our local checkin-notification and remote symlink-management provisions.

1. Create the repository using cvs init according to your needs.
2. Do a checkout of your repository's CVSROOT bookkeeping directory. You'll be adding all our customizations there.
3. CVS add copies of the following files, as is:

   postcommit_actions - must be executable - chmod +x postcommit_actions

   adjustlinks.py

   repolinks

   traffic_table.py

4. CVS add a copy of traffic_table.py, changing the value for internal and the settings in the add_to_table() call in init_table() to suit your purposes.
5. Add the following lines to the checkoutlist file, and check in the changes:

         postcommit_actions
         traffic_table.py
         adjustlinks.py
         repolinks
         passwd
   

6. Add and checkin the following lines to the loginfo file:

          ^CVSROOT ${CVSROOT}/CVSROOT/postcommit_actions --verbose %{sVv}
   
          DEFAULT ${CVSROOT}/CVSROOT/postcommit_actions %{sVv}
   

The values in traffic_table.py dictate triggering and routing of notifications. The settings in repolinks dictate symlinks in the repository. Text at the tops of the files have detailed instructions.