Re: determine branch's ancestor?
Hello, * On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 08:56:50AM -0400 Jim.Hyslop wrote: Most of the work on FEATURE touches new files or files that haven't changed in months, so the branch tags RELEASE and FEATURE both point to the same versions of the files (the last HEAD revision), so i can't use that to help me determine the ancestor. A difference which makes no difference is no difference (attributed variously to philosopher Bertram Russell, philosopher William James, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Commander Spock). Pick one, tag it as the base, and move on. What about the following case: There are thousands of files in this module, which are common to FEATURE and RELEASE, and all - except one! - or the same. How can he distinguish this case from the case where all files are the same? I think that was his question in the first place, at least, it is how I understood it. Tyler, if this is your problem, then I don't have another solution but go through the whole repository and check for the files where the tags are different. Some skripting would be required. Regards, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://www.trikaliotis.net/ http://www.viceteam.org/ ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
RE: determine branch's ancestor?
Tyler wrote: I have been negligent in my record-keeping and find that i don't know from what branch i cut a new branch. That is, did i cut feature branch FEATURE from the trunk, or from release branch RELEASE? Most of the work on FEATURE touches new files or files that haven't changed in months, so the branch tags RELEASE and FEATURE both point to the same versions of the files (the last HEAD revision), so i can't use that to help me determine the ancestor. How else can i do this? A difference which makes no difference is no difference (attributed variously to philosopher Bertram Russell, philosopher William James, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Commander Spock). Pick one, tag it as the base, and move on. -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts) ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
determine branch's ancestor?
I have been negligent in my record-keeping and find that i don't know from what branch i cut a new branch. That is, did i cut feature branch FEATURE from the trunk, or from release branch RELEASE? Most of the work on FEATURE touches new files or files that haven't changed in months, so the branch tags RELEASE and FEATURE both point to the same versions of the files (the last HEAD revision), so i can't use that to help me determine the ancestor. How else can i do this? tyler ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
