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Re: Old Coreutils CVS Administriva
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: Old Coreutils CVS Administriva |
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Wed, 9 Oct 2013 16:30:46 -0700 |
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Bob Proulx <address@hidden> wrote:
> Summary: The old coreutils CVS is now marked read-only.
>
> Details: Recently one of the other projects on Savannah moved from CVS
> to GIT. They wanted to mark the old CVS source repository as
> read-only to ensure that no developers accidentally committed to it.
> And to have it produce a useful error message upon accidental commit
> to it. That seemed useful. And useful to other projects that move
> too. I added a commitinfo hook for them in a way that I hope will be
> useful to other projects. I wanted to test the configuration on a
> test project. Hmm... Which could I use?
>
> The old coreutils had been in CVS too. It was useful to me to test
> the functionality there. As a very trivial administrivia point I have
> marked the old coreutils CVS repository as read-only and a message
> that the CVS location is obsolete and has been moved is emitted. I
> thought I would send a notification here about it.
Thanks, Bob!