Li Chou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I tried to figure out a single step of check out a project that
> contains modules from different branches of different project.
> For example, Project X has 3 modules, A and B which are from other
> projects. I need to check out module A's of Project Y branch_2.5,
> and module B of Project Z's main trunk. If they both were in the
> main trunk, I know I could add "X C &A &B" in modules file. Now
> how do I check out them both at the same time? is it possible?
> Thanks
Would a two-step process work for you ? Recently I've been thinking
about a "wrapper" project. Something that would work thus:
$ cvs checkout X-wrapper
U X-wrapper/README
U X-wrapper/checkout.sh
and the README file would say:
Run "sh checkout.sh" to get the rest of the tree. Bye.
The checkout.sh script would contain these commands,
cvs checkout C
cvs checkout -r branch_2-5 A
cvs checkout B
and by running it you would get the correct revision of
each subtree. The script is rev-controlled, so it can track
changes in branch tags when subprojects get merged to
their trunks.
I guess this sort of thing (programmability) comes more
naturally in *nix. Bah, even Windows lets you write
a checkout.bat, so it will work there too.
--
pa at panix dot com
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