Mike Noyes schrieb:
>
> On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 07:06, Manfred Schuler wrote:
> > Mike,
> >
> > I did _NOT_ at all want to criticize the staff at SF.
> > I know about them only what I see on the list, so I'm
> > not in a position to judge how they do their job.
>
> Manfred,
> I apologize for the tone of my last message. It was inappropriate.
> Sorry.
>
No reason to apologize.
> > I think I didn't express clearly what I mean.
> >
> > It is meant as a principle when working on large projects:
> > _NEVER_ change anything that is correctly checked in
> >
> > I will give you an example of what I mean:
> >
> > In version 1.0 of package xxx you have 2 script files:
> > scripta and scriptb
> > One line in scripta is
> > source scriptb
> >
> > Later you decide scriptb is not a good name and you change the name
> > to scriptc and the line in scripta to:
> > source scriptc
> > The version 1.1 of the package xxx consists now of the files
> > scripta and scriptc.
> > Now you rename scriptb in your CVS tree to scriptc.
> >
> > A user who wants to checkout version 1.0 gets a problem because
> > scripta requires scriptb, but someone who dosen't know about
> > the rename, doesn't know where to get scriptb.
> >
> > Even when the label is moved with the files, you get
> > scripta and scriptc on checkout, but the package won't work
> > because of the wrong filename.
> >
> > You see, when you rename files in CVS, you get nonfunctional old
> > versions.
>
> Ah, now I see. :-)
> I hadn't considered this sequence of actions. I believe interdependent
> files that require movement/renaming are candidates for branches. Would
> branching the sample above be an appropriate course of action?
>
No need to branch. Just remove the HEAD and MAIN tags from the old file.
--
Manfred Schuler
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