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

[Nancy Mazur]

* Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> [2002-09-11 11:24]:
> 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.

Well, there must have been a change to that file, since it got updated
during my resynchronisation of the reuse branch. And it seems strange
that after updating that file, and committing it, no
copyright-error-message was produced. Or is that what you mean by your
'cvs import' ? Ow, I see. 

So, what do I do, add all the missing files to .nocopyright, and commit
it on the main-trunk?

Nancy
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