Re: cvs export: (no files)

[Derek Robert Price]

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Todd Denniston wrote:

>Derek Robert Price wrote:
>
>>address@hidden wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all
>>>
>>>I think the situation is
>>>
>>>There are two module
>>>
>>>modA modB
>>>
>>>if I tag modA with 'tag123' then I export modB with 'tag123', it
>>>will return the directories of modB but not the files Is this a
>>>bug?
>>
>>It's not the optimal behavior perhaps, but it would be somewhat
>>invasive to fix.  I would consider a solid and succinct patch
>>submission which implements the behavior you describe, but it would
>>probably be some time before I got around to implementing it myself.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Derek
>>
>Derek,
>which behavior are you suggesting should be implemented?
>A) when checkout/export is called with a tag, if a File does not have
that
>tag just get the latest version.
>B) when checkout/export is called with a tag, if no File in the directory
>has that tag, do not create the directory in the sandbox/export.
>
>
>Here is what I envision (from the description above) jacinleyoung did :
>cvs checkout modA
>cd modA
>cvs tag tag123
>cd ..
>cvs export -r tag123 modB
>#results in empty directories created in modB, which is the current
EXPECTED
>result.
>
>In which case I could support (someone else's patch) to do (B),
however (A)
>is a non starter.


I was suggesting B (a simple -P option as checkout & update have
should be sufficient for this), with an error message when done along
the lines of "No files found containing TAG in PATH" when no files or
directories are checked out.

Cheers,

Derek

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