RE: Exp state on top of dead

[CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM]

Hi Larry Et. Al.,

> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: 24 August 2006 18:20
> To: CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Exp state on top of dead
> 
> 
> CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM writes:
> > 
> > So the fix would be to manually resurrect it (by simply 
> moving it out of the
> > Attic?) then re-running the "cvs remove" command, so that 
> it goes back into
> > the Attic and gets status "dead" on the HEAD revision?
> 
> If you just want to really kill it, there's no need to move it -- just
> get a working copy (either check out that specific file or do 
> an update
> with that file name in an existing working directory) then cvs remove
> and commit it.


In this particular instance we wanted to kill it, so thanks for your
suggestions.  I checked out the specific version, removed the sticky version
tag, rm'ed it and cvs removed it, and commited.  It now shows 'dead' on head
revision.  Let's hope it stays that way.

What worries me now is the possibility of there more files lurking out there
which are in the same state so I'm trying to write a little script to
identify them.    Note that validate_repo did *not* flag this as a problem,
even with -a switched on.  If run with -v, I can see 'dead' whizz by well
before 'Exp' later at HEAD, so it has the opportunity to catch this (author
cc'd in case [s]he's interested/has time to build this check in).  I thought
about modifying validate_repo, but then thought it might be easier to write
my own.

The problem I have is that I can't seem to do a 'cvs log' without checking
out the code.  If this script gets run as the repository owner, on the cvs
server machine, then I set the CVSROOT to :local:/path/to/repository and in
theory I'm set (?) but 'cvs log module/file' complains that there is no
module called 'module' 'here', even if i'm in the repository itself.
Obviously I want to avoid checking out the entire codebase to check things.
I could use a perl module to parse the raw RCS file, or write my own, but
I'd prefer to rely on native CVS commands.  Is there a way to achieve this?

Many thanks,

David Carter-Hitchin.
--
Royal Bank of Scotland
Interest Rate Derivatives IT
135 Bishopsgate
LONDON EC2M 3TP

Tel: +44 (0) 207 085 1088


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