RE: improper behavior or improper usage?

[Andy Jones]

On Friday, October 10, 2003 6:00 AM, Larry Jones 
[SMTP:address@hidden wrote:
> Mark Jaffe writes [in exceedingly long lines]:
> >
> > CVS is not behaving as expected, and causing great difficulty.
>
> Your expectations are wrong.  The CVS philosophy is that you tag entire
> modules, not bits and pieces.
>
> -Larry Jones

I think Larry is right in that Lawrence's expectations are wrong.  But I 
think the problem is something different.

Lawrence, if I understand correctly, you are tagging files that are ready 
to become part of the main product, then trying to check out a working copy 
that is the sum of the 'main product' tag and the 'ready' tag?

This is contrary to CVS's normal mode of working.  Normally you check out a 
working copy, do the development, then *commit* files to make them part of 
the product.  You can then export or checkout to a common code area if you 
need to.

If this doesn't work for you, why not just have a 'current product' tag, 
and add or remove it from files as necessary?  But by doing this you are 
circumventing a lot of the good stuff CVS has to offer.

What we will be doing here is: every time we are ready to make a release, 
tag all the files for that release with a 'release' tag.  Then we can 
export on just that tag.  We can tag individual files if we like (for 
example if we are making a patch release and only need some of the 'library 
routines' module) and that works fine.

Andy Jones
Tapestry Software.