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Re: help with rlog
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Jerry Wang |
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Re: help with rlog |
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Sat, 04 Mar 2006 23:37:19 +0000 |
>Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:56:06 -0500
>From: Jim Hyslop <address@hidden>
>CC: address@hidden
>Subject: Re: help with rlog
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>sreekanth wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have a tree that's imported .Let 's say i have a file "file1" with
>> initial version 1.1.1.1 (yes, that's the revision i have for all the files
>> that are imported), Now create a tag RLS_TAG1 on it. Then commit the next
>> version of it, now the revision number is 1.2(strange for me, but still).
>
>That is expected behaviour, and is what is causing your problem.
>'import' is designed to track third-party source code. When you import
>code, it is automatically placed on a vendor branch. CVS assumes that
>you do not want your changes to be mixed in with vendor-supplied
>updates, so when you modify and check in the code locally, CVS
>automatically puts those changes on the trunk. The next vendor-supplied
>update would be applied with another 'import' command, where you would
>provide the same vendor-branch as the initial import. Then you can
>easily merge your changes into the vendor's changes.
>
>
>> Now i do a tag RLS_TAG2. Now if i do a rlog of messages between RLS_TAG1 and
>> RLS_TAG2 using command
>> cvs rlog -rRLS_TAG1::RLS_TAG2 <path>file1,
>> I was expecting the log message of the commit message that i just did(of
>> revision 1.2) , but instead i see the original commit message that was used
>> to Import this file into the tree(revision 1.1.1.1), Is that an expected
>> behaviour? It's essentially breaking my script to retrieve the logs between
>> two subsequent Tags.
>This is expected behaviour. -r expects the two tags to be on the same
>branch. In this case, they aren't.
>
>> Is there a work around to fix this issue?
>
>The command 'cvs admin -b' will move all files to the trunk. Then, move
>the RLS_TAG1 from the branch to the trunk. Actually, to be safe, I'd
>leave RLS_TAG1 where it is, and apply a new tag, e.g. RLS_TAG1a to rev
>1.1 of all files.
>
>The tricky one will be RLS_TAG2: some of the tags will be on the branch,
>some on the trunk. You'll need to move any tags from the branch to the
>trunk (again, instead of moving, create a new tag - that way, you can
>always abandon the new tag if you make an error).
>
>In future, don't use 'import' to populate your repository, unless it is
>third-party source code.
>
As I know, I have to use import for the first time to add project, then I
should check it out. It's a little awful for me. Is there any method to add a
new project into repository except import? Thanks.
>- --
>Jim Hyslop
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Jerry
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