[Gnu-arch-users] cscvs version splitting [was Re: Working out a branching scheme]

[Charles Duffy]

On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 22:40, Tom Lord wrote:
> At the same time, were autoconf _developed_ under arch the archive
> wouldn't come out that way and it's a weakness of the cscvs tools that
> they don't know how to cope with this issue yet.

Actually, they've been able to split CVS repositories over multiple arch
branches or versions ever since Major called his first release done,
with the provisios that:

- Manual intervention is required (to determine where the version splits
belong; a repository-specific wrapper script familiar with local tagging
conventions is probably the best way)
- The functionality is *extremely* under-{documented,tested}.

Hopefully Robert's test harness will help that latter bit become less of
an issue.