[cvsnt] Re: Update does not support 'per-file' tags/branches

Joe Enfield joeenfield at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 19 21:31:01 BST 2004


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I've narrowed it down
2.0.41a Works
2.0.42 does not Work.
I hope this helps in resolving this issue.
I will try to get a batch script together that shows the problem...

Thank you,
Joe E.

"Joe Enfield" <joeenfield at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:cl3rf6$j3v$1 at paris.nodomain.org...
> I've been doing some testing.
> I created a test cvs server, and tried cvsnt versions 2.0.41, 2.0.51d, and
> 2.0.58a
> version 2.0.41 worked as expected.
> versions 2.0.51d, and 2.0.58a did not work.
> I will go through each version between 2.0.41 and 2.0.51d and try to
narrow
> down where the behavior changed.
>
> To re-cap 2.0.58a exhibits this behavior (at least for me):
> given the sandbox:
> SandBox\src\com\company\dir1\dir2\file12.java (branch1)
> SandBox\src\com\company\dir1\dir2\dir3\file123.java (branch2)
> SandBox\src\com\company\dir1\dir2\dir4\file124.java (branch1)
>
> Then
> c:\SandBox\src>cvs update
> will cause the SandBox\src\com\company\dir1\dir2\dir3 files to change from
> branch2 to branch1 (wrong behavior)
>
> given the sandbox:
> SandBox\src\com\company\dir1\dir2\file12.java (Head)
> SandBox\src\com\company\dir1\dir2\dir3\file123.java (branch2)
> SandBox\src\com\company\dir1\dir2\dir4\file124.java (Head)
>
> Then
> c:\SandBox\src>cvs update
> will keep the SandBox\src\com\company\dir1\dir2\dir3 files as branch2
(right
> behavior)
>
> I will try to make a scripted test of this, and upload it for others.
>
> Joe E.
>
>





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