Re: import inconsistency

[Derek Robert Price]

Paul Edwards wrote:

> I've been looking back at my hacks.
>
> Given that imports currently make an *active head* automatically,
> assuming that there is no existing branch, can we at least have a
> short-term "improvement" that imports will cause a file (initially
> added on a branch) to move out of the Attic during an import?
>
> It would be nice to go the whole hog and have consisent
> behaviour between imports on no-existing-branch and imports
> on existing-branch, but in the interim, as a first step, can we at
> least have the file moved out of the Attic so that it stops being
> an exception in that respect, even if it still an exception in
> other respects?
>
> ie something along these lines that I posted before...
>
> Index: import.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/ccvs/src/import.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.133
> diff -r1.133 import.c
> 696a697,701
>  
>
> >    if (inattic)
> >    {
> >        RCS_setattic(vers->srcfile, 0);
> >    }
> >    

Please include ChangeLog entries and sanity.sh test cases with patches 
you'd like us to accept, as per the ccvs/HACKING file.  

Also, please send patches in universal (-u) or context (-c) diff format!

Derek

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