RE: checking in links to source control

2001-09-10 Thread Alex Harper
Sidestepping the issue of links in CVS, I'm unclear on the problem you're trying to solve. We have a number of perl scripts stored in CVS which share a large set of common library modules. They work exactly as you describe, in that they are able to bootstrap themselves onto any machine they are

RE: checking in links to source control

2001-09-10 Thread Alex Harper
Ok, suppose you have a driver script, call it 'bootstrap.p'. This driver script goes along with a couple of data files (say an ini file and a function library that drives the script (call it instructions.pl) Now, where should bootstrap.p live? If it lives in a centralized script

RE: Verifymsg on branches?

2000-11-22 Thread Alex Harper
Title: RE: Verifymsg on branches? Uwe, I've just finished my first cut at doing per-branch bug number requirements in our CVS repository. Bear in mind I haven't finished testing it yet, so I could be way off base here. It also presumes you are using cvs client/server. My solution was to

Taginfo question

2000-09-14 Thread Alex Harper
Title: Taginfo question I've been looking for this myself, and I believe you are correct. A few weeks ago (in August) one of the OpenAvenue developers posted a patch which provides branch info in taginfo (as well as other information I need in commitinfo, etc.). The patch was for the