Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of digest files from the tree

[Petteri Räty]

Robin H. Johnson kirjoitti:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 04:06:47PM +0200, Petteri R??ty wrote:
>> Fabian Groffen kirjoitti:
>>> On 26-01-2008 17:35:37 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>>>> Related to the top level of the tree, can we get a release of repoman
>>>> that detects if a checkout is a subset only (eg no top level), for folk
>>>> that have subtree checkouts only? (Probably look for skel.*/profile
>>>> items two levels up).
>>> Is it possible to have a CVS server-side commit check to see if digest
>>> files were added, and if so to reject the commit?
>> Should be as we already fail invalid .xml files.
> Due to how CVS hooks operate, it's not quite possible.
> You wouldn't be able to block the entire commit, only the contents of
> the files/ directory would get totally blocked.
> If you were committing an ebuild along with a patch, this would be very
> bad, as the ebuild+Manifest would get committed, but the patch wouldn't.
>

Then perhaps we could set the hook to send a mail to the developer in 
question.

Regards,
Petteri