RE: Building out of multiple tags

[Arthur Barrett]

Gounder27,

> I don't want to label all the 10000 files 
> as "patch1" because for patch1, we
> only modified those 100 files. 


Firstly everything everyone else has said I agree with - and importantly that 
CVS and ClearCase are not interchangable and each have strenghts and 
weaknesses.  Chances are your employer spent up to $10K on the ClearCase 
license for you and as much again per person on training and training materials 
and consultants - spend the same time and effort with CVS and you'll get the 
same result - an SCM system that efficiently fulfills your business 
requirements.

Also as previously pointed out: in CVS you should always tag all files.

That all said I think it's an interesting question.  

Note: I use CVSNT mostly (free like CVS, runs on unix/linux like CVS, supports 
changesets, merge tracking, commit ids, audit etc) so I don't know which 
commands I may refer to that are syntactically incorrect for you.

The most generic answer I can think of is to use merge:
* cvs checkout -r may_release module
* cd module
* cvs update -j patch1

Patching the 100 files that were different for patch1 must have been a pain - 
in CVSNT I'd have just committed them with the patch number "cvs ci -B 1" and 
then I could use "cvs up -B 1" - but what I've written above should work now 
that you do have them tagged.

A variation of the the 'cvs up -f' option (force match on HEAD if revision not 
found) is ultimately what you are looking for, ie: "cvs up -f may_release -r 
patch1" which is interesting - but not currently implemented.

I've made a note of it for future reference though - thanks for the suggestion. 
 You can track it's progress here:
http://customer.march-hare.com/webtools/bugzilla/ttshow_bug.cgi?id=5296&tt=1


 
Regards,


Arthur Barrett