[Cvsnt] Next release features

Brian Smith brian-l-smith at uiowa.edu
Sun Mar 10 00:14:27 GMT 2002


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Tony Hoyle wrote:
> Brian Smith wrote:
>
> Automatically detecting 'add' would be nice, too, but I can't think of a
> good way to do that (since compilation typically creates dozens of files
> that you don't want adding to the repository).

If you use the .cvsignore file and give the user an option to
(add/ignore) each new file, it would work okay. TortoiseCVS's "add" is
pretty nice if you want to work from Windows explorer. And TortoiseCVS
has an "add all files recursively" command that is basically like what
you want, but it doesn't take .cvsignore into account, so it can be kind
of slow. That is the "other" reason I sent you the patch to move the
intermediate files.

>> But that can't happen as long as:
>> (1) so many programs are directly dependent on the contents of these
>> files
>
> That isn't going to go away - cvsnt must be largely compatible with cvs
> otherwise nobody is going to use it...  There are hundreds of cvs
> frontends and most of them won't change quickly if at all.

Yes, I agree that compatibility is the main limiting factor.

>> (2) people need to manually change the metadata (for example, when Tony
>> gave me a CVS account, I had to change all my "Root" files to contain
>
> If it was in NTFS file attributes then it would be impossible to change
> the root :-)  At the moment it's really simple.

Sure, that's exactly what I'm saying. Probably it should be possible to
change the root without modifying the files by hand or with a script.
But it is a very low priority thing because the type of change I had to
do is rarely needed (and I believe it is sspi/pserver-specific).

- Brian

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