RE: delete an from local CVS/Entries file

[Jim.Hyslop]

Antony Paul wrote:
> I work on a maintenance project. There will be more than one task
> delivered at one time. The onsite guy will checkout the files by task,
> and test. If a task is OK then the working copy is tagged by task
> number. If any of the task is not working and it is a new file that
> has to be deleted in order to not tag this with other tasks. That task
> may be left untouched for several days till it is fixed and new tasks
> may be delivered in between. So it is difficult to document and
> exclude these files over a period of time. It will be nice if I could
> give a script to delete the files.
This all sounds very manually-intensive, and therefore error-prone. Writing
scripts is the right thing to do, but writing a script to edit the Entries
file is asking for trouble. If you insist on editing the Entries file,
sooner or later something *will* go wrong and you'll waste several days
trying to sort it out.

What is the nature of your project - is it a web site, or a program with C
or C++ source files, or...? When you say "checkout the files by task", how
do you define which files to check out? Do you use branches and tags, or
some other mechanism?

-- 
Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com )
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal ( http://www.cuj.com/experts )