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Re: CVS export
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Stewart Brodie |
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Re: CVS export |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:56:35 +0100 |
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In message <address@hidden>
address@hidden (John Minnihan) wrote:
> In all the years I've used CVS, I've institutionalized use of 'cvs
> export' only briefly at one client. And that was only to satisfy some
> nimrod (who didn't understand cvs) who screamed - repeatedly - "get rid
> of all these CVS files!". Presence - or absence - of the CVS admin
> structure hasn't had the slightest impact (positively or negatively on
> its own merit)on the success of failure of any of the thousands of
> releases I've produced. Period. 'cvs co' with a known tag is the way
> to go.
I agree that I prefer 'cvs co'. We run automated builds of several products
and prefer to have incremental updates to the source tree (thus requiring
checkout not export).
Plus I seem to recall that in CVS 1.10.8, you cannot export directories that
have default log messages specified in rcsinfo (you get an error about not
being able to create CVS/Entries files). We would use 1.11.1p1, but we've had
to revert to 1.10.8 as CVS 1.11.1p1 dies with protocol errors all over the
place during the nightly checkouts.
>From an exporting point of view, the issue of not knowing what sources
comprised any particular build is a non-issue for us - each product is
defined in terms of a text file (held in CVS) containing a list of
directories and symbolic tags. In that case, a product can be defined in its
entirety by the revision or date of this single file (which contains $Id$ in
a comment at the top to identify it)
--
Stewart Brodie, Senior Software Engineer
Pace Micro Technology PLC
645 Newmarket Road
Cambridge, CB5 8PB, United Kingdom WWW: http://www.pacemicro.com/
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- Re: CVS export, Larry Jones, 2001/10/17
- Re: CVS export, John Minnihan, 2001/10/17
- Re: CVS export, Greg A. Woods, 2001/10/18
- Re: CVS export, John Minnihan, 2001/10/18
- Re: CVS export, Greg A. Woods, 2001/10/18
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- Re: CVS export, Greg A. Woods, 2001/10/19
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