Re: Checkout/Update: behavior changed from 1.11 to 1.11.1p1 !

[Derek Robert Price]

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Yves Martin wrote:

> Why the ampersand is not enough for me ?
> Because, the project having that issue uses many modules like the
> following example can give you a short guess:
>
>my-dir1 -d local1/local2/local3/dir1 module1/dir1
>my-dir2 -d local1/local2/local3/dir2 module1/dir2
>my-dir3 -d local1/local2/dir3 module1/dir3
>my-dir4 -d local1/local2/local4/dir4 module1/dir4


I'm still not convinced you couldn't do something, for instance, with
the -d option and several & modules renaming themselves to, "local1",
perhaps.  I don't have the time to correct your syntax though.  You
might try info-cvs since this isn't a bug.  I'd probably play around
with the various modules file syntax options for a bit, myself, before
I started asking more questions.

> Is there any piece of "internals" documentation that explain how (and
> why) CVS decides to map a working copy directory on a module ? I'm
> really curious to understand that mechanism better.


I don't recall.  I glance through the FM and didn't see it.  We'd love
to see a correction in a patch!

Basically, if a parent directory exists in the repo and a parent
directory exists in the sandbox, then it gets mapped.

> And eventually to know why 1.11 and 1.11.1p1 releases work
> differently.


Because the majority of users complained to this list that the mapping
_didn't_ happen when it didn't happen.  You appear to be one of the
minority that preferred the previous behavior, but I expect you should
really still be able to eke that functionality out of the modules file
if you put a little elbow grease into it.

Such changes probably won't happen on a stable branch (only on feature
branches) in the future, but the stable/feature split didn't happen
until  1.11.6.

Cheers,

Derek

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