[m-dev.] diff: mention .nocopyright in remove CVS doc.

[Tyson Dowd]

Hi,


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information/developers/remote_cvs.html:
	Remove stuff about problems with copyright messages.
	Add stuff about using .nocopyright to override copyright message
	checks.


Index: information/developers/remote_cvs.html
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diff -u -r1.2 remote_cvs.html
--- information/developers/remote_cvs.html	2000/08/09 07:46:51	1.2
+++ information/developers/remote_cvs.html	2000/08/21 01:36:04
@@ -119,13 +119,16 @@
 	  <a href="http://www.wincvs.com/">WinCVS</a> that should
 	  work (although we haven't tried it ourselves).
 
-	<li> There are some checks that are done via questions.  In
-	particular, our CVS repository does checks for up-to-date
-	copyright messages on all files.  These checks don't work very
-	well using the CVS `pserver' as mentioned here -- when you check
-	in it will complain that it doesn't know how to interact with
-	you.  Contact us if this is a big problem -- we know some
-	workarounds.
+	<li> There are some checks that are done via interactive
+	questions during the CVS commit.  In particular, our CVS
+	repository does checks for up-to-date copyright messages on all
+	files.  If the file in question shouldn't have a copyright
+	message, you can override this check by creating a
+	`.nocopyright' file in the directory that contains your file(s).
+	The contents of the .nocopyright file should be a list of
+	filenames that don't need to be checked for copyright messages,
+	separated by whitespace.  You need to `cvs add' and `cvs commit' the
+	.nocopyright file with your other changes.
 </ul>
 
 Then (once you've been added to the passwd file):


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