Re: Trunk tags that act like "branch tags"?

[Eric Siegerman]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:03:21AM -0400, Chris Sherman wrote:
> I want to pull a particular subset of files found
> on the main trunk into a newly created pen.

You could define the subset as a module, then simply:
        cvs checkout CmdFiles

> I could do it in a script, of course, but
> then that script must be adjusted with every new
> added or deleted file (if anyone remembers).

Doing it as a module still has this problem -- you have to keep
CVSROOT/modules up to date.  But then, your proposed solution of
using a sort-of-branch tag also has to be maintained manually --
you have to remember to tag each new file.

If you were able to isolate included files from excluded ones by
putting them in separate directories, you could make the
"CmdFiles" module just refer to the appropriate directories, and
it'd pick up file adds/deletes automatically.  But that might
distort the source tree too much to be practical.

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