[SCM-136] Make it possible to pay attention to .cvsrc

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-beta-2
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-beta-3
• Component/s: maven-scm-provider-cvs
• Assignee: Emmanuel Venisse
• Reporter: Matthew Beermann
• Created: 19/Jan/06 09:28
• Updated: 13/Mar/06 04:07
• Resolved: 03/Feb/06 08:22

Description

There ought to be a way to tell the SCM plugin to obey the .cvsrc file. Here's why:

I've had developers complain about empty directories showing up in their jar endstates. Simple, I thought - just add "checkout -P" to my .cvsrc file. But, if I'm reading http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/maven/scm/trunk/maven-scm-providers/maven-scm-provider-cvs/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/scm/provider/cvslib/command/checkout/CvsCheckOutCommand.java?view=markup correctly, the plugin will always ignore the .cvsrc file since it always specifies the "-f" flag and doesn't allow arbitrary flags to be passed in.

I can understand the reasoning behind this behavior - there are certainly CVS flags that would make Maven very unhappy - but there's also something to be said for giving people enough rope to hang themselves with. All sorts of important/useful settings (like compression) could be in their .cvsrc too. In my case, at least, I don't see any other way to get it done.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: SCM-151 Make it possible to define global cvs options