Block CVS Commits without message
If you are in my case, and you found it difficult to make some people in your team make proper comments/messages or any comments at all (cvs commit -m “Description of the changes”) while committing their changes to CVS, here’s what can be done to block commit without comments and with short comments. Checkout the CVSROOT directory cvs co CVSROOT Edit verifymsg in CVSROOT as follows #Set the verifymsg file to run a script DEFAULT /usr/local/bin/validate-cvs-log.sh Create /usr/local/bin/validate-cvs-log.sh script (make it executable for all cvs users): #!/bin/sh # # validate-cvs-log.sh logfile # test that log message has some characters in it if [ cat $1 | wc -c -lt 12 ] ; then echo “log message too short; please enter a description for the changes” exit 1 else exit 0 fi Commit verifymsg cvs commit -m “Added script to set minimum message size to 12 characters” verifymsg That’s it ! […]