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RE: BRANCH LABEL FOR DIRECTORIES


From: Greg A. Woods
Subject: RE: BRANCH LABEL FOR DIRECTORIES
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 20:38:00 -0400 (EDT)

[ On Tuesday, June 19, 2001 at 11:42:20 (+1200), Chris Cameron wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: BRANCH LABEL FOR DIRECTORIES
>
> So now you're saying that it could be included OOTB AND that you've proposed
> it in the past.  But you've been arguing that this is a BAD IDEA (TM) and
> seem to continue that position later in the same e-mail!

No, I did not argue that it was a bad idea.  I said that it was not a
necessary feature of a basic source code control system like CVS.

What I and others have proposed are methodologies to work within the
existing feature set of CVS.

I also said such a feature could be included out-of-the-box if someone
would step up and write the code (test it, document it, etc.).  What I
did not say was how it might come "out of the box" -- it could just as
easily take the form of a little set of shell scripts to be used as
command-line wrappers.

> I'm just sitting on the sideline and observing this one, but you seem to be
> trying to have your cake and eat it!

Ah, but in this case I can.  Everything I've described about tracking
the renaming/moving of files using "cvs rm" and "cvs add" with magically
meaningful comment strings can be easily automated by a front-end.  No
change is necessary in CVS itself to achieve this functionality,
therefore it is provably not a necessary feature of the basic CVS
functionality.

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