Re: "Promotion groups"

[Eric Siegerman]

> --- address@hidden wrote:
> > However there is much momentum (culture and automated build scripts)
> > that take advantage of PVCS "promotion groups" which are like
> > constrained, floating tags.  (They are constrained in the choices the
> > developer can chose from, such as Dev, Test, Staging, Prod).
> > 
> > Is there any way to simulate this in CVS?

The "floating" part's easy; see the -F option to "cvs tag".

I don't know about the "constrained" part.  CVS doesn't do that
out of the box, but perhaps it can be enforced using one of the
CVSROOT/*info files.

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 06:38:57AM -0800, Kyle Adams wrote:
> We're also debating about ways to keep track of previous versions
> tagged for each environment.  We'd like to do this to provide rollback
> functionality [...]

You could set two tags, a floating one for the scripts and a
non-floating one for the humans, e.g. "Test" and "Test-20020115"
respectively; or else set only the non-floating tag, and use some
mechanism external to CVS to tell the scripts which tag
corresponds to the current test build.

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