[spambayes-dev] spambayes CVS repository problem

[Sjoerd Mullender]

On 07/25/2007 06:56 PM, skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     Sjoerd> After the change to SVN, I would like to copy my private changes
>     Sjoerd> over to the new checkout.  However, I can't easily since cvs
>     Sjoerd> diff gives me
> 
>     Sjoerd> cvs diff: failed to create lock directory ...
> 
>     Sjoerd> Presumably this is an attempt to prevent people from
>     Sjoerd> accidentally committing to the wrong repository, but it makes it
>     Sjoerd> difficult to read the repository.  Maybe a better way than
>     Sjoerd> making the directories read-only would be to add a commitinfo
>     Sjoerd> entry.  Something like
> 
>     Sjoerd> ALL /bin/false
> 
>     Sjoerd> might do the job.
> 
> I don't know anything about commitinfo and would really prefer to not mess
> with CVS any more than absolutely necessary.  I've reenabled you for CVS
> write access.  You could also do a checkout and just locally diff the two
> trees.

I've been able to do my cvs diff, so now I don't need the CVS access
anymore.  Thanks.

-- 
Sjoerd Mullender