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C.7: Loginfo

The `loginfo' file is used to control where `cvs commit' log information is sent. The first entry on a line is a regular expression which is tested against the directory that the change is being made to, relative to the $CVSROOT. If a match is found, then the remainder of the line is a filter program that should expect log information on its standard input.

If the repository name does not match any of the regular expressions in this file, the `DEFAULT' line is used, if it is specified.

All occurances of the name `ALL' appearing as a regular expression are used in addition to the first matching regular expression or `DEFAULT'.

The first matching regular expression is used.

See commit files, for a description of the syntax of the `loginfo' file.

The user may specify a format string as part of the filter. The string is composed of a `%' followed by a space, or followed by a single format character, or followed by a set of format characters surrounded by `{' and `}' as separators. The format characters are:

All other characters that appear in a format string expand to an empty field (commas separating fields are still provided).

For example, some valid format strings are `%', `%s', `%{s}', and `%{sVv}'.

The output will be a string of tokens separated by spaces. For backwards compatibility, the first token will be the repository name. The rest of the tokens will be comma-delimited lists of the information requested in the format string. For example, if `/u/src/master' is the repository, `%{sVv}' is the format string, and three files (ChangeLog, Makefile, foo.c) were modified, the output might be:

/u/src/master ChangeLog,1.1,1.2 Makefile,1.3,1.4 foo.c,1.12,1.13

As another example, `%{}' means that only the name of the repository will be generated.

Note: when CVS is accessing a remote repository, `loginfo' will be run on the remote (i.e., server) side, not the client side (see Remote repositories).

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