smoot-tastic with the .no-checkin

now can add a .no-checkin file at the top of a repository (svn, git, etc) and if that file is found, then the repository will not be checked in or have changes reported by our tools.  this is crucial for checking out others repos that we don't intend to modify.

diff --git a/scripts/rev_control/version_control.sh b/scripts/rev_control/version_control.sh
index 432d32636c4bfb3de14efddd4f4184a5ec6fe87c..9bf195c1b9221c6fff9d364966372f07b49bb097 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/rev_control/version_control.sh
+++ b/scripts/rev_control/version_control.sh
@@ -113,7 +113,9 @@ function do_checkin()
   fi
   pushd "$directory" &>/dev/null
   local retval=0  # normally successful.
-  if [ -d "CVS" ]; then
+  if [ -f ".no-checkin" ]; then
+    echo "Not checking in because found .no-checkin sentinel file."
+  elif [ -d "CVS" ]; then
     cvs ci .
     retval=$?
   elif [ -d ".svn" ]; then
@@ -163,7 +165,9 @@ function do_report_new
   local retval=0  # normally successful.
 
   # only update if we see a repository living there.
-  if [ -d ".svn" ]; then
+  if [ -f ".no-checkin" ]; then
+    echo "Not reporting mods because found .no-checkin sentinel file."
+  elif [ -d ".svn" ]; then
     # this action so far only makes sense and is needed for svn.
     bash $FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/rev_control/svnapply.sh \? echo
     retval=$?