Re: Ignore local changes?

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, April 2, 2003 at 13:44:00 (-0500), Eric Siegerman wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Ignore local changes?
>
> No, but you can get part-way there, by explicitly updating to
> the HEAD revision of the file.  Find out what the HEAD revision
> is (for the sake of argument, say it's 1.4), and type:
>       cvs update -r1.4 myfile

That's a really good suggestion Eric!

It is perhaps the only other good reason to ever use sticky revisions!

(the first reason is of course to simply avoid repository changes)

> So this trick only gives you one of your two requirements, but
> arguably the more important one.  The mistake it prevents you
> from making is the one that would affect other peoples' work,
> while the mistake it still permits will affect only your own.

I've always wondered if maybe there shouldn't be an indicator of sticky
files (specifically only those with sticky revisions, not sticky branch
tags), such as maybe 'S':

        $ cvs update
        S newfile.c

Of course if it really is modified locally then you will see that
indicated even with no new hacks:

        $ cvs update
        M newfile.c

But maybe it should have a different flag letter anyway...  ('m'?)

Maybe we also need a second new flag to indicate a modified sticky file
that's also out-of-date, i.e. like 'J' but for sticky files?  An 'S'
overstruck with a 'J' looks a bit like an '8'....  :-)  (but 'j' would
work for me too! ;-)

Then of course we'd need a third new flag for sticky unmodified files
that are just out of date.  ('u'?)

Right now the worse problem is that 'cvs status' doesn't show the truth
about the current repository revision of a sticky file (at least it
doesn't in 1.11.1.1 -- maybe I should upgrade!  ;-):

$ cvs status  newfile.c                                           
===================================================================
File: newfile.c         Status: Up-to-date

   Working revision:    1.1     Sat Mar 16 20:10:40 2002
   Repository revision: 1.1     /cvs/test/tdoc/newfile.c,v
   Sticky Tag:          1.1
   Sticky Date:         (none)
   Sticky Options:      (none)

$ cd -
/home/proven/woods/tmp/t-tdoc2
$ cvs status  newfile.c  
===================================================================
File: newfile.c         Status: Up-to-date

   Working revision:    1.2     Wed Apr  2 20:07:39 2003
   Repository revision: 1.2     /cvs/test/tdoc/newfile.c,v
   Sticky Tag:          (none)
   Sticky Date:         (none)
   Sticky Options:      (none)

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