Re: Checkout's over checkouts.

[Russ Sherk]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:08:15 +0100, Euan Guttridge
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> Euan Guttridge wrote:
> > Thanks for the input Jim and Rick, to clarify
> >
> > Objective:
> > - check out a branch to workspace
> > - *overwrite* a number of those files in workspace from
> > various tags (not
> > update so there is no possibility of merge conflicts)
> > - tag the consolidated workspace
> >
> > Caveats:
> > - I can't specify tagged files by name (too many)
> > - I will use two or more tag sets (of potentially 20 + files each)
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.
> 
> If you are starting with a fresh checkout, then you do not need to worry
> about any kind of merge conflict. Conflicts only occur when you have
> modified a file that is about to be merged. If you have not modified the
> file locally, then there will be no conflict.
> 
> [EUAN] That may occur if tag1 contains the same files as tag2
> 
> 
> Objective 2 seems to conflict with Caveat 1. How will you determine which
> files to overwrite? Also, how frequently will you do this - is this a
> one-time task, or will this be done more than once?
> 
> [EUAN] A number of files will have the same tag, i.e. if you check out tag1
> you will get 20 files. This will be done weekly.
> 
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> Jim Hyslop
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If it is needed weekly, probably you want to create a script to do this.

cvs rtag BIG_TAG <base module>
cvs rtag -F -rTag1 BIG_TAG <list of files>
cvs rtag -F -rTag2 BIG_TAG <list of other files>
.
.
.
cvs co -rBIG_TAG <base module>

--Russ