Re: Reimporting vendor projects where items have been deleted

[Derek R. Price]

Eric Siegerman wrote:

> Note that if all of these conditions are met except the last one,
> ie. the ,v file has an appropriate vendor branch, but the latest
> revision on that branch is marked "dead", then of course the new
> release tag should be added to that dead revision -- as happens
> now for an unchanged "live" file.

No it shouldn't.  The only time I can see _any_ reason to do this is for the 
tag used
in the import during which the file was actually remove and then only to mark 
the
import which deleted the file.  This information should more likely be in the 
log
message.  The dead revision really only needs to be attached to the branch.


> Should this be based on the import branch number, rather than
> name?  That is: if, in the above example, branch-tags "vendor1"
> and "vendor2" both referred to branch 1.1.1, then they'd be
> considered identical for this purpose; vendor2_file1 *would* be
> deleted during the "third" import.  But if "vendor1" and
> "vendor2" referred to different branches, eg. the vendor2 import
> had been:
>         $ cvs import -m second -b 1.1.3 tst vendor2 vendor2_v1
> then, as Nathan says, vendor2_file1 would *not* be deleted during
> the "third" import -- indeed, in this specific case, it wouldn't
> have to be deleted, since it wouldn't be on branch 1.1.1 in the
> first place.

Absolutely not.  If the same vendor branch name was used in both cases then it 
should
already be an error if they point at different branches.

Derek
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