gounder27 writes:
>
> Can I tell CVS to checkout files with tag "patch1" and if "patch1" is not
> present, checkout files with tag "may_release"?
No. The CVS methodology is to apply tags to *all* of the files, not
just some of them.
> I don't want to label all the 10000 files as "patch1" because for patch1, we
> only modified those 100 files.
To find out what files actually changed, use:
cvs rdiff -t -rmay_release -rpatch1
> In clearcase, this is very easily done through an appropriate config file. I
> hope it is possible in CVS also.
You can achieve the same results, but not the same way. CVS is not
ClearCase.
-- Larry Jones
I just can't identify with that kind of work ethic. -- Calvin
