Re: [Gnu-arch-users] cscvs cache -u while others are commiting large changesets in CVS

[Milan Cvetkovic]

Charles Duffy wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 09:15, Milan Cvetkovic wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to tell "cscvs totla" not to apply the CSCVS changesets 
> > later than a specified time?
>
>
> It could be coded up easily enough.
>
> A cheap hack, in the mean time, might be a sqlite query run from the
> command line after each "cscvs cache -u" to delete all changesets with a
> timestamp inside the region of time you wish not to accept them (as well
> as revisions associated with those changesets).
Well, I don't really feel comfprtable doing either :-(

Since this is a cron job doing updates, I can do some scripting to 
invoke "cscvs totla" only for CSCVS changesets older than some preset 
time, for example five minutes, or so.

Now the question is, how much time is enough?

For example:
I checked in (tc CVS) a file 3 hours ago.
Then, 1 hour later, I check in another file, with exactly the same 
comment. If there were no CVS commits in between, are these two 
considered by CSCVS to be part of the same transaction, or there is some 
sort of timout?

Thanks, Milan.