[m-rev.] [reuse] synchronize reuse branch with main branch

[Fergus Henderson]

On 11-Sep-2002, Nancy Mazur <Nancy.Mazur at cs.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:
> 
> It seems that when checking in files from the reuse-branch, it looks at
> the .nocopyright file from the main trunk.

Yes, that is correct.  The check.pl script doesn't know which branch
you are checking things in on.  That explains your problem.

> I've temporarely added
> BCC_MAKEFILE to the main trunk .nocopyright file, which enables me to 
> check my reuse-branch version in without any problems.
> 
> But I wonder, it cannot be the purpose for me updating .nocopyright on
> the main trunk? Haven't other developers encountered that problem when
> synchronizing their branch? I mean, CVS should have complained during
> the first check-in of those files, anywhere in CVS? 

I'm not sure if check.pl gets run when things are added via
`cvs import' rather than `cvs commit'.  I think it doesn't.

Also, BCC_MAKEFILE was first added to our repository in 1995,
whereas the copyright checks were only added to check.pl in 1997.

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