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Re: commitinfo script to check policy, issue warnings (and/or abortcommit)
- To: <rittle at rsch dot comm dot mot dot com>, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: commitinfo script to check policy, issue warnings (and/or abortcommit)
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 15:38:08 +0200 (CEST)
- cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Loren James Rittle wrote:
> If we want to force people to use `cvs import' to bring libtool into
> our source tree (i.e. prevent_commit=0), then this documentation
> should appear in http://gcc.gnu.org/codingconventions.html:
>
> Here is a correct way to use CVS vendor branches with the import
> policy rules for libtool (this example for libtool only, but
> config.guess, etc should be similar):
>
> 1. Create an empty directory (i.e. do not work in a checked-out CVS
> working tree). Populate it with upgraded libtool files taken from
> the master repository on subversion.gnu.org.
>
> 2. Run: cvs import /cvs/gcc SUBVERSION LIBTOOL_RELEASE_NUMBER
> within the directory populated in step 1.
>
> 3. Ignore any merge warnings the first time this is done.
>
> 4. Run: cvs admin -bSUBVERSION ltconfig ltmain.sh libtool.m4 ltcf-*.sh
> at the top level of a checked-out CVS working tree.
Well, as far as I understood, we don't want to absolutely enforce this
rule, but strongly recommend it, so it would make sense to add such a
note to codingconventions.html anyway, wouldn't it? Alexandre?
(If Alexandre agrees, I'd say just go ahead and change the web page
according to your proposal. Thanks!)
Gerald