Re: Tag locking change

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On , October 9, 2002 at 14:26:15 (-0400), Adam Bregenzer wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Tag locking change
>
> On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 13:58, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, sure, but that copying is done (or at least the source for the
> > copying is created with) "cvs update", RIGHT?  (i.e. it had better be!)
> 
> Not at all.  The server that holds the cvs repository also has apache
> runing on it.  When a commit occurs each file that is committed is
> copied into a seperate directory.  That directory is the DocumentRoot
> for apache.  That way, when a change is committed it is automagicall
> viewable by browsing to the cvs server.  The point is that one who does
> not edit the site manages and approves the site.

My point was that you can do the same thing more reliably with a "cvs
update" in a working directory that is the DocumentRoot.

>  Currently that
> individual runs cvs rtag when the site is in a producation ready state. 

Then that individual _could_ edit the site, so it is irrelevant from the
access rights point of view whether or not that indivudual runs "cvs
tag" or "cvs rtag".

> Then a script is run that does a cvs export with that tag and posts it
> to the live site.  It has nothing to do with the client, it's all
> *server* side.  I see no reason for it to bve tied to an update, I don't
> even know how to execute a server-side script on update and wouldn't
> want to anyways.

You could trigger the server-side "cvs update" in any number of ways,
though the very best would be if the individual doing the testing and
approving did it just before testing.

> > When it's "ready" you should be "cvs tag"ing the working directory which
> > matches the "ready" revisions of the files.
> 
> But what if I have not working directory.  What if the developers are
> just that.  Developers.  I can certianly tell them to tag it for me but
> that's a bit strange.

That does not make any sense.  You can have a working directory if you want.

> Actually, I realized something else, you can't run an rtag from a
> application that was run from a commitinfo script.  That's what I was
> thinking.

You can't run "cvs tag" directly from comitinfo scripts either, but that
shouldn't be an issue.  It's easy enough to design better solutions.


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