Re: adding on branch

[Paul Edwards]

"Max Bowsher" <maxb@ukf.net> wrote in message 
news:mailman.6750.1053899040.21513.bug-cvs@gnu.org...
> Paul Edwards wrote:
> > "Max Bowsher" <maxb@ukf.net> wrote in message
> > news:mailman.6730.1053856252.21513.bug-cvs@gnu.org...
> >>> Ok, but an import is another way of adding a "head" version.
> >>> So the import should also go through the same logic, moving a
> >>> file out of the Attic and putting it into the normal spot,
> >>
> >> No, if you import on top of a dead head revision, you get a conflict, as
> >> expected, and then you merge, and the commit after that commits and alive
> >> revision, causing the RCS file to move out of the Attic.
> >
> > What I meant was, if you do an import, and no file currently
> > exists, it will automatically add it, and a head will now exist,
> > where none previously existed.
> >
> > So import is different from adding on a branch.
> >
> > Import is expected to create a head version.
> >
> > So if in the Attic there is an existing file, but it only has a branch
> > (file was added on a branch), there is no explicitly-dead head,
> > then that should also be reason to move out of the Attic.
>
> Um, no. There cannot not be a head. Therefore, when a file is added on a
> branch, there *must* be a dead head added. Correspondingly, importing
> creates a live head revision it creates a new RCS file - but if one already
> exists, there is no reason for import to touch head, and no reason to affect
> the Attic-status of a file.

Logically, I don't think a user submitting an advanced version of
a file, on his own branch, should interfere with the natural behaviour
of an import, which would create a non-dead-head, not in the
Attic.  The whole point of a branch is for people to have their
own playpen and not cause harm to the natural processing
outside that branch.

> > At work, our multiple projects are branched off various drops of
> > various imports.  The head is never used.  So we never get files
> > added on a branch moved out of the Attic unless I do it manually.
>
> And this is a problem because...?

I have had other problems, can't remember exactly what, and I
solved them by moving them out the Attic.  I don't think a file
should be in the Attic if it's counterparts (imported in the same
way) are not.

BFN.  Paul.