RE: removing directories

[Schwenk, Jeanie]

Works like a charm and it's even in the doc under C.1.4 Excluding
directories.  Now that I know what terminology (removing verses excluDing) I
should be searching for, it was easy to find in the doc.

Thanks.

Jeanie  

-----Original Message-----
From: John Minnihan [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 10:33 AM
To: Schwenk, Jeanie; address@hidden
Subject: Re: removing directories


address@hidden wrote:

> I need to be able to customize what gets checked out and how it's
assembled
> for differing environments.   This seems pretty basic.  
>  
> What started this is the contractors we have placed the SAME files in
three
> places originally and kept only one environment updated completely.   We
> ended up with inconsistent behavior across all environments.  To correct
> that, I have removed redundant copies and kept the correct up-to-date
files
> from the repository.   This however brings up a different problem.  We
need
> to be able to use TEST and DEV with some of the files from PROD.  The top
of
> the repository looks like this because we have three environments: 
>    systema/environments/prod
>    systema/environments/dev
>    systema/environments/test
>  
> These three now contain distinct files but ALL environments need the files
> from systema/environments/prod/lib_ext.  
>  
> Each env has a lib_ext directory (also contains directories) in the repos
> because I can't remove them (see 7.3 in the manual).  Isn't there a way
> around this?  I need to grab the lib_ext dir from prod and plop it into
the
> checked out version of the other two environments.   CVS will not let me
do
> that.  
>  
> Is it best to just check both sections out independently and then have a
> script mv the lib_ext to where it needs to be?  I haven't been able to
come
> up with any way to change the repository structure to allow what is
needed.
> Should I try renaming directories?  All the ideas I've come up with seem
> brute force ... there must be a better way.  If I could just rid of the
> pesky directories in the repository, this problem would go away.  Perhaps
I
> am looking at this the wrong way.  
>  
> Here's the two important lines from the modules file:  
>  
> PRODLIB -d lib_ext systema/environments/prod/lib_ext
> TEST -d test systema/environments/test &PRODLIB  
>  
> Here's what happens when I try to checkout TEST (which makes sense):
>  
> cvs checkout: Updating test/lib_ext
> cvs checkout: Updating test/lib_ext/ifx_java
> cvs checkout: Updating test/lib_ext/ifx_java/lib
> cvs checkout: Updating test/lib_ext/ifx_java/proxy
> cvs checkout: Updating test/lib_ext/systema
> cvs checkout: existing repository
> /export/cvsroot/systema/environments/test/lib_ext does not match
> /export/cvsroot/systema/environments/prod/lib_ext
> cvs checkout: ignoring module PRODLIB
>  
> Jeanie

Jeanie,

Try excluding stuff in your modules def's using the shebang notation 
(that is "!").  I do stuff like this on very large modules, excluding 
things nested in the tree that I don't want in various checkouts.

Define one module to be the 'universe'.  I have developed the habit of 
explicitly naming this module 'xxxxuniverse', where xxxx is the overall 
product or project name.  Then, selectively define what you want in each 
of the environments.  Ignore the physical structure of the repository 
for this exercise.  Just scratch together a quick Wish List.  i.e. 
"Module Foo should be dirA, dirB, dirF and dirG but nothing else. 
Repeat this exercise for each environment you need to create.

Then methodically add corresponding def's to the modules file for each 
of the above.  You may have to tweak the def's a few times before you 
grok this technique (I certainly did).  Here's an example:

# in the defs below, the shebang is used as an exclude modifier. jbminn

quality 
   -a !engineering/autobuild !engineering/products !engineering/tools 
!engineering/buildsystem engineering

tools 
   -a !engineering/autobuild !engineering/buildsystem 
!engineering/products !engineering/quality engineering

autobuild -a !engineering/products !engineering/quality 
!engineering/tools   engineering

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John Minnihan
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