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From: |
Hector Santos |
Subject: |
CVS questions |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:28:12 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) |
Hi,
I have a few questions about CVS.
I've been using CVS for about 7-8 years now at very basic level. My
normal practice has been:
1) For the current release cycle, Make changes to code, add new
stuff, if any
2) Do commits,
cvs commit -m "comments"
3) For final release, tag it
cvs tag revision_tag
where an example of the revision_tag is
rev6_3_452_6
for v6.3 build 452.6
If I see "did not move" tag warning, then I will use
cvs tag -F revision_tag
Recently I started on "v7.0" and this will have some fundamental
changes, includng using more current compilers (VS2008) The end of life
of v6.3 based on VC6 has been reached, but it will continued to be
updated for hot fixes, if necessary.
I had explored the ideas of using branches and tags but quite frankly,
it was very confusing so to be on the safe side, I simply cloned the 6.3
(\CVSROOT\WC6\) repository to \CVSROOT\WC7 and checked out WC7. So I
did this:
- make sure we commit and tag the final v6.3
d:
cd \local\wc6
cvs commit -R -m "final v6.3 commits"
cvs tag -RF rev6_3_452_6
- backup the cvsroot\wc6 repository
z:
cd \cvsroot
pkzipc -add -dir cvsroot_rev63 wc6\*.*
- clone wc6 to wc7
z:
cd \cvsroot
xcopy wc6 wc7 /e /s
- checkout the new wc7
d:
cd \local
cvs checkout -R wc7
My questions:
I had been working on WC7, making all my changes for the newer compiler,
etc, and now I am written to commit this.
1) How should I "tag" this, what switches should I use? do I use a Branch?
I think, technically, I can stil work on v6.3 from the WC7 and checkout
folder repository. Although I doubt I would want to mixed the two, I
am wondering if I safely could. Ideally, I would like to single source
it, but if there is a change of conflicts, I would rather have it
separate.
Which leads me to my 2nd question:
2) Is there a "enhanced" version of CVS that allows for two different
"trunks" per se?
I did alot of reading of the subject of tagging, branching, etc, but I
wasn't all very clear with that. It appeared what I was looking for is
two different "trunks" but I wasn't sure, so this is why I did the
separate WC6 to WC7 repository clone just to be on the safe side.
Was there something I could of done to make it do what I wanted or do I
need to use some other CVS system? I got the idea that one for reasons
for SVN was that it addresses such "multi-trunk" ideas? Is that
correct? I read alittle about CVSNT, but that appears to be innodated
with "selling" your stuff. Plus I got comfortable with manual handling
of the cvsroot folders for situations here I need to make corrections or
move cvs folders around , and I hate to begin hiding these stuf with
"binary" and special formats in newer systems.
Anyway, any tips, insights or comments you made have would be appreciated.
Thanks
--
Hector Santos, CTO
http://www.santronics.com
http://santronics.blogspot.com