info-cvs
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Patch for CVS 1.11.17 and CVS 1.12.9 that allows for actions using s


From: Derek Robert Price
Subject: Re: Patch for CVS 1.11.17 and CVS 1.12.9 that allows for actions using specific versions of CVSROOT/modules
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 15:05:27 -0400
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Mark D. Baushke wrote:

> You are addressing a problem that a number of folks consider a weakness
> of the modules file.


:)!

> All that said, I have not looked closely at your patch yet (and I
> probably won't have any time in the next few weeks myself, so if one of
> the other maintainers gets to it first that would be fine with me).


I probably won't soon, but I'll add a few comments too.  :)

> I do have one comment/question for discussion...
>
> Would it be reasonable to extend the patch to also deal with '-D' times
> in conjunction with the -M ? So that if '-M branch' is used, then the
> branched version of the modules file is used and if -D and -M are used,
> then the version of the modules at that point in time on that branch are
> used...
>
> Note: A CVSROOT/modules file that was not branched or tagged will also
> need to do something reasonable given a '-M rev' flag.


I wouldn't have a problem, in fact, I'd prefer it, if the default
behavior was to assume any checkout using a tag should *assume* -M rev
with the same rev passed to -r/-j.

The same goes for -D.  CVS should assume the version of the modules
file to use corresponds to the -D argument.  I don't think I would
require the -D functionality for the initial patch, however.  Shane's
patch, given test cases and documentation and assuming -M rev as I
mentioned above, provides enough additional functionality to be
useful.  Let a later patch add the -D functionality.

In both the assumed -r rev and -D rev cases, I wouldn't have a problem
with -M rev allowing an override of the default.  Then -M HEAD could
be used to get the original behavior.

One question to consider, especially given a change of the default
behavior, would be that some users will be suprised by, say, rdiff
which accepts _two_ -r options and currently, I believe, only consults
modules once.

Thanks for the patch!  I've been thinking modules should behave that
way for years.

Cheers,

Derek
- --
                *8^)

Email: address@hidden

Get CVS support at <http://ximbiot.com>!
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFBN271LD1OTBfyMaQRAjgdAJ9zJofrIT1jv8S0jsLmryY4QkxzYgCg/Bov
FgCUcciJEkV2BnOEMBo6ER0=
=Cud8
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----





reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]