RE: How to detect new CVS dirs

[Peter Toft]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 19:39:12 +1100, Arthur Barrett wrote: 

CVS
1.12.13 in both ends. 

Your fundamental question "why" - well it is for
a Python rework of the old "cvsstat"  

I wrote many years ago ->
http://cvs.sslug.dk/cvs2html/ [3] 

i.e. in order to answer "why do I
get if I would update?" - very relevant question IMHO. 

* cvs lrs ->
NICE one - I will check this one out - never used it  

* cvs log -> I
want to avoid this since I normally have quite big projects, i.e. cvs
log will give a lot of output. 

THANX! 

Best 

Peter 

> Hi Peter,
>

> What version client, and what version of server? CVS 1.12 and CVSNT
2.5/2.8 have commands that older releases like CVS 1.10 do not.
> 
> Let
me ask a fundamental question: why?
> 
> I ask this because I've often
seen complex technical questions disguise a perfectly simple requirement
that is solved a different way by CVS.
> 
> Software that detects
changes in the repository, and advises users of this is quite common.
And commonly done poorly. eg: Eclipse 'syncronise' and Oracle
JDeveloper. At least in the case or Oracle, the JDeveloper team did
contact us at some point to ask suggestions of how to do it 'better'.
And I applaud you too for asking.
> 
> Technically my answer is that
commitlog is the way to achieve this. ie: when the server receives a
change, it can trigger some event (typically sending an e-mail) and
client apps can use that information, or query that information to get
the result. Typically this answer is not well liked. Developers of GUIs
often want something like what you are asking for, i.e.: oh just run
command xyz and it'll tell you....
> 
> So here are some more technical
thoughts:
> 
> 1. you could use a variation of 'cvs log' to find all
changes between two points in time - the time your sandbox was last
updated and the current time.
> 
> 2. you could use 'cvs rls' to get a
listing of a directory and compare it to your own directory.
> 
> 3. try
to avoid complex 'cvs -n ' cases - or at least test them thoroughly. I
mostly work on CVSNT (forked from CVS several years ago to support
additional features), and I know that in many cases cvsnt 'cvs -n' does
not do what it is advertised to do. In fact we only 'support' a couple
of specific cases of 'cvs -n up' since we consider it an
'outdated/deprecated' way to 'list modules'. After 7 years and about 7
million downloads we've only ever had 1 person notice - and they were a
CVS developer (GUI) not a 'person using CVS'. My point? 'cvs -n' is not
widely used and therefore probably not widely tested.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>
Arthur Barrett
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
address@hidden [1] on behalf
of Peter Toft
> Sent: Thu 07/07/2011 7:45 AM
> To: Info cvs
> Cc: 
>
Subject: How to detect new CVS dirs
> 
> Hi all 
> 
> I have a small
brain-teaser for the CVS-gurus.... 
> 
> Assume
> that I "pto" have a
CVS module checked out, and the user "donald" have
> the same module
checked out - 
> 
> both on HEAD version. Then "donald" adds
> two dirs
(Donald/ + Scrooge/) and one file (Scrooge/McDuck) 
> 
> mkdir
> Donald

> 
> mkdir Scrooge 
> 
> echo "money" > Scrooge/McDuck 
> 
> cvs add
>
Donald Scrooge 
> 
> cvs commit Donald Scrooge 
> 
> cvs add
Scrooge/McDuck 
> 
> cvs commit -m "Money makes the world go around"
Scrooge/McDuck 
> 
> My
> question to you is how can "pto" detect what
"donald" did - WITHOUT
> changing the files locally. 
> 
> Part of the
question is solved by running
> 
> cvs -q -n update -AdP 
> 
> However
now it gets a bit more blurry.... 
> 
> I
> will see the directories
"Donald" and "Scrooge" in my stderr output 
> 
> cvs update: New
directory `Donald' -- ignored 
> 
> cvs update: New
> directory
`Scrooge' -- ignored 
> 
> well - I kinda dislike this, since a
> real
"cvs update -AdP will prune the empty "Donald" away i.e. I cannot
> see

> 
> why "cvs -q -n update -AdP" should show this. Comments on this?
>

> The other issue is that I cannot see the file "Scrooge/McDuck" with
my
> "cvs -q -n update -AdP". 
> 
> Clues to get that information -
again without
> actually modifying the local files of me? Comments? 
>

> I can solve this
> by first doing an actual update of the two dirs,
and see what I get -
> and then remove the 
> 
> two dirs, but I would
like to solve this with
> that strategy. 
> 
> Best 
> 
> Peter Toft 
>

> -- 
> Peter Toft,
> PhD
> http://petertoft.dk [2]

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