[cvsnt] Feature request: Commitable tags

Glen Starrett grstarrett at cox.net
Fri Apr 25 20:48:29 BST 2003


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Correct me if I'm wrong here, but it seems as though he is using the term
"release" where I would use something like "product version"--that is, he is
releaseing different products that have the same core but some differences.

I might be totally off base but if that is the case, then you would probably
be better served by using conditional compilation in code (assuming that is
available in whatever language you are using) or working out some sort of
pre-compile step with your code if it isn't supported.

Glen Starrett


-----Original Message-----
From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org]On Behalf
Of Tony Hoyle
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 11:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Feature request: Commitable tags


On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 20:09:18 +0300, Tuomas Huhtanen
<tuomas.huhtanen at vertex.fi> wrote:

>How I would like to do it:
>Create commitable Tags ct_R1, ct_R2, ct_R3
>edit the file A in the ct_R1 (meaning that I have checked out ct_R1, the
>  file actually resides in the main trunk)
>update tags ct_r2 and ct_R3 to point to the same revisoin as ct_R1 does.
>(Now we have single revision with three tags pointing to it (plus the
>original revision))

You can't do that unless ct_R1 == HEAD, otherwise you'd have to create a
branch, and move the 3 tags onto it.

There's nothing to stop you moving tags around now if you want, it's just
difficult to track so not recommended.

>and then we edit A in ct_R2. Now if we try to commit it, we cannot do
>it, since ct_R2 is now outdated. Now we need to branch the A to b_R2 and
>  commit the change there. Also because we want the change to ct_R3, we
>update the ct_R3 to point to the b_R2 revision.
>(Now we have two revisions with two tags pointing to one and one tag
>pointing to the other)

..which CVS already supports.  I don't see what the 'commitable' tags have
gained you in this case.

Tony

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