RE: Branch mess, and starting a project with import

[Jim.Hyslop]

Peter S. May wrote:
> Tom Copeland wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 14:43, Jim.Hyslop wrote:
> > 
> > Hm, that's interesting.  I've always started projects in 
> CVS by doing an
> > import of some existing directory tree... just seems to 
> remove some of
> > the tediousness of lots of cvs adds of directories...
> 
> Indeed, the CVS Book 3rd edition ( 
> http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/ ) around 
> page 31 outlines cvs import as the way to start a new module in the 
> repository.
Well, that is _one_ way to do it, but I really think it's a mis-use of the
import command. You still have to create the entry in CVSROOT/modules (a
very important step for a repository of any significant size).

Haven't you ever wondered why you are *required* to provide a branch tag
that will never be used?

>       The vendortag and releasetag arguments are a bit of
>       bookkeeping for CVS. Don't worry about them now;
The tags are not "bookkeeping for CVS", they are required in order for the
command to operate as it was intended to operate.

> That does seem to be less of a hassle (and probably less error-prone) 
> than editing the repository guts...
Who said anything about editing the repository guts?!? The command sequences
that Mark and I posted earlier do not directly change the repository. Every
change to the repository is done through the CVS interface.

-- 
Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com)
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts)