[cvsnt] Re: Access to file contents via commitinfo script

[Tony Hoyle]

Thomas Muller wrote:
> CVS gurus,
> 
> I'm trying to create a style checker script via commitinfo, but are having
> trouble accessing the contents of the pre-commited file.
> 
> I've added the following line to CVSROOT/commitinfo
> 
> 	Test/* D:/BaseCamp/Tools/Sun/J2SE/1.5.0_06/bin/java -classpath
> D:/BaseCamp/CVS/PreCommitChecks PreCommitTest
> 
> When I commit a file in the Test directory I get the directory name as an
> argument to my PreCommitTest program, and the filename as a line fed into
> std-in. However, I don't know how to access the contents of the pre-commited
> file; it does not exist as a "temporary" file in the CVS repository, at
> least not where I expect to find it (Test/<myfile>). 
> 
>
The files will be in the current directory, just read the files based on the 
name in the standard input.

Tony