Re: Pinning in CVS

[Kaz Kylheku]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Conrad T. Pino wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden On Behalf Of George Abraham
> > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 01:58
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: Pinning in CVS
> > 
> > Is there any method by which the "Pinning Feature" in VSS can be implemented
> > in CVS ?

> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 13:40:03 -0800
> From: Conrad T. Pino <address@hidden>
> To: George Abraham <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Subject: RE: Pinning in CVS
> 
> See the "-D" or "-r" options for CVS "checkout" or "update".
> 
> When "-D" or "-r" are used this information persists in local copy
> i.e. the date or revision tags are "sticky".  Read following:

This is not exactly the pinning feature. The pinning feature of VSS is
an escape hatch that is used when people realize that sharing files
was a bad idea, and that people are now breaking each other's projects
when they check in changes to shared files without verifying the
changes for each one of the N projects.

What you can then do is, in the repository, asssert that you don't want
to get new versions of certain shared files. You want them to be stuck
at a certain revision. This is a policy for everyone checking out your
project (but it doesn't affect someone checking out the same files 
through some other link).

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