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 08:56, Milan Cvetkovic wrote:
>
> > How does cscvs handle this scenario:
> >
> > "cscvs cache -u" is invoked while another developer is commiting a 
> > substatntial number of files with the same comment. Normally cscvs would 
> > clasify all these changed files as a single transaction, but at the time 
> > of cache update, not the whole "changeset" is checked in CVS yet.
>
>
> The way the logic was initially designed, it will create a new changeset
> for those files which are checked in so far -- and then later append to
> that changeset when another "cache -u" is performed.

I am under the impression that this is the case. I am running a cron job 
which runs "cscvs cache -u"; cscvs totla ...". On couple of ocassions I 
noticed that tla and CVS are not in sync. Whn I dig a little bit deaper, 
I figured that tla changeset has a little bit less files changed than 
corresponding CSCVS changeset - I can only explain this if CSCVS 
changeset was updated later with the full set.

Is there a way to tell "cscvs totla" not to apply the CSCVS changesets 
later than a specified time?


Thanks, Milan.

> However, this functionality hasn't been tested in a while. Writing a
> test case (since Robert Collins has added a framework for them) to
> validate this functionality would be greatly appreciated.