[cvsnt] RE: How to edit administrativ files?

[Bo Berglund]

No problem,
I can answer this way too..

The reason you don't check out admin and passwd is that it would be too
great a
security risk. These files control who can administer the CVS server and the
other
stores the user/password info. These files are typically not included in
among
the files checked out.

You can add extra administrative files if you like. To do that you can do as
follows:
1. Check out CVSROOT
2. Add one or two files of your own and commit them
3. Edit the checkoutlist file and add the files you committed to the list
4. Commit checkoutlist.

Now the files you added have become part of the administrative files.
Whenever a
change is committed the version file in CVSROOT is normally updated but then
also
all files get extracted in the latest revision so there will be a cleartext
file
in the CVSROOT folder as well as the ,v file.
This is exactly how I get the support files for CVSMailer into the
repository.

Cheers,

Bo


-----Original Message-----
From: Shepherd [mailto:chgg at shinewaysoft.com]
Sent: den 8 januari 2003 08:09
To: bo.berglund at telia.com
Subject: Re: How to edit administrativ files?


Sorry for repled to your mailbox. I am not very good at using newsgroup.
I mean when I "cvs checkout CVSROOT, I can only get these files, not
including 'admin', 'passwd'...".

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bo Berglund" <bo.berglund at telia.com>
To: "'Shepherd'" <chgg at shinewaysoft.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 3:00 PM
Subject: RE: How to edit administrativ files?


> Because these are the adminitrative files you can check out from
CVSROOT...
>
> What is really your question here? I don't understand what you are after!
> Are you asking why you don't get more files when checking out CVSROOT
> ora are you asking how to check out the real project files you want to
> work with????
>
> /Bo
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shepherd [mailto:chgg at shinewaysoft.com]
> Sent: den 8 januari 2003 06:57
> To: bo.berglund at telia.com
> Subject: Re: How to edit administrativ files?
>
>
> Why can I only check out these files?
>
>  checkoutlist
>  commitinfo
>  config
>  cvswrappers
>  editinfo
>  loginfo
>  modules
>  notify
>  rcsinfo
>  taginfo
>  verifymsg
>
>
>
>