How do I disable logging for CVSROOT in loginfo?

Question

I'd like to disable logging for the module CVSROOT. I tried:

^CVSROOT /bin/cat > /dev/null

but that fails with this error:

/bin/cat: >: No such file or directory
/bin/cat: /var/cvs/globus/base2/CVSROOT: Is a directory

It seems CVS appends some default parameters when I don't specify anything. But I can't use /bin/cat ${sVv} because then cat will try to open these "files". I can't use /bin/true because then I get broken pipe errors. Also, the redirection seems to fail.

How do I do this?

Answer 1

The error can come from two sources: The file loginfo and the file commitinfo.

To disable the logging for CVSROOT, you must first add a new script ignore.sh to CVSROOT (if you're working remotely, just checkout the module CVSROOT). The script is pretty simple:

#!/bin/sh

cat > /dev/null
exit 0

Make sure the script is executable.

Add the name of the script to end the file checkoutlist in a line of its own.

Add this rule near the top of loginfo:

^CVSROOT $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/ignore.sh %{sVv}

And this rule near the top of commitinfo:

^CVSROOT $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/ignore.sh "%r/%p" "%s"