FW: Patch for preserving edit on files when checking out

[Darren Bowles]

I've had a few people asking me for my patch, so maybe the previous one
never made it to the list;  I know I had attachment problems before.

Please find enclosed the patch (as text) from the previous email.

Ta,
Darren.

> ______________________________________________ 
> From:         Darren Bowles  
> Sent: 22 March 2005 14:17
> To:   'bug-cvs@gnu.org'
> Subject:      RE: Patch for preserving edit on files when checking out
> 
> Please find attached my CVS patch for preserving editor flag upon
> multiple checkouts.
> 
> The issue is : development projects frequently have developers working
> on more than 1 branch at the same time.  For instance, they may be
> working on forthcoming development work, in addition to fixing live
> support issues.
> 
> The current code will overwrite a users edit flag if they check out
> the source code again.  There is a comment in update.c that suggests
> it would be better to do this instead of by user, by work area; which
> makes more sense.
> 
> When I get a spare couple of days, I will code / implement this
> feature as it will be very useful.
> 
> This patch adds a new ./configure option called --enable-keep-editing
> which will preserve a users edit upon checkout.
> 
> I grant permission to distribute this patch under
> the terms of the GNU Public License
> 
>  << File: cvs.patch >> 
> 
> Index: config.h.in
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/ccvs/config.h.in,v
> retrieving revision 1.163
> diff -r1.163 config.h.in
> 739a740,743
> > /* Define if you want CVS to be able to preserve your edits on
> multiple
> >    checkouts. */
> > #undef KEEP_EDITING
> > 
> Index: configure
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/ccvs/configure,v
> retrieving revision 1.376
> diff -r1.376 configure
> 963a964,965
> >   --enable-keep-editing   Allow a user to keep their file edits,
> when checking
> >                           out another copy of a repository.
> 37970a37973,37984
> > # check whether --enable-keep-editing was given
> > if test "${enable_keep_editing+set}" = set; then
> >   enableval="$enable_keep_editing"
> > else
> >   enable_keep_editing=no
> > fi;
> > 
> > if test no != "$enable_keep_editing"; then
> > cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
> > #define KEEP_EDITING 1
> > _ACEOF
> > fi;
> Index: configure.in
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/ccvs/configure.in,v
> retrieving revision 1.345
> diff -r1.345 configure.in
> 1364a1365,1390
> > dnl
> > dnl begin --enable-keep-editing
> > dnl
> > 
> > dnl 
> > dnl If you are using the edit facility and you checkout in more than
> > dnl one directory, you will lose you edit.  This option enables you
> to
> > dnl keep editing.
> > dnl
> > 
> > AC_ARG_ENABLE(
> >   [keep-editing],
> >   AC_HELP_STRING(
> >     [--enable-keep-editing],
> >     [Include code for preserving edits on multiple checkouts
> (default)]), ,
> >   [enable_keep_editing=no])
> > 
> > if test yes = "$enable_keep_editing"; then
> >   AC_DEFINE(
> >     [KEEP_EDITING], [1],
> >     [Define if you want CVS to be able to preserve your edits on
> multiple checkouts.])
> > 
> > dnl
> > dnl end --enable-keep-editing
> > dnl
> > 
> Index: src/update.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/ccvs/src/update.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.252
> diff -r1.252 update.c
> 1356a1357,1358
> > /* If we don't want to keep edits from a previous checkout */
> > #ifndef KEEP_EDITING
> 1358c1360
> < 
> ---
> > #endif