Re: cvs export: (no files)

[Todd Denniston]

Derek Robert Price wrote:
> 
> address@hidden wrote:
> 
> > Hi all
> >
> > I think the situation is
> >
> > There are two module
> >
> > modA modB
> >
> > if I tag modA with 'tag123' then I export modB with 'tag123', it
> > will return the directories of modB but not the files Is this a
> > bug?
> 
> It's not the optimal behavior perhaps, but it would be somewhat
> invasive to fix.  I would consider a solid and succinct patch
> submission which implements the behavior you describe, but it would
> probably be some time before I got around to implementing it myself.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Derek
> 
Derek,
which behavior are you suggesting should be implemented?
A) when checkout/export is called with a tag, if a File does not have that
tag just get the latest version.
B) when checkout/export is called with a tag, if no File in the directory
has that tag, do not create the directory in the sandbox/export.


Here is what I envision (from the description above) jacinleyoung did :
cvs checkout modA 
cd modA
cvs tag tag123
cd ..
cvs export -r tag123 modB
#results in empty directories created in modB, which is the current EXPECTED
result.

In which case I could support (someone else's patch) to do (B), however (A)
is a non starter.

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