[Zope-PTK] PTK CVS Structure
Tres Seaver
tseaver@palladion.com
Tue, 01 Aug 2000 08:30:15 -0400
Chris Withers wrote:
> Slightly off topic, but CVS related, has anyone managed to checkout out
> a tag from the CVS? (more specifically, one they've created)
> I haven't tried recently, but I seem to remember this just chucked up
> CVS errors...
The PTK CVS is somewhat anomalous:
- PTK is the only project which currently allows checkins on
cvs.zope.org.
- Its code sits "inside" the same repository used by the main Zope CVS.
- The main Zope CVS is replicated from our internal CVS repository
using a fairly frequent cron job; in particular, this replication
replaces the CVSROOT/val-tags file.
- The PTK CVS is *not* replicated from the internal CVS: i.e., the
CVS on cvs.zope.org is the only repository for it.
- The replication of the CVSROOT accounting machinery for the "main"
repository wipes out any tags added to the CVSROOT/val-tags file
(the PTK repository files still have the tags, but they can't be
checked out unless the tag is in CVSROOT/val-tags).
- Ergo, one *can* tag files in the PTK CVS; one can even check out the
repository using those tags, up until the next time the cron job wipes
the newly-minted tag from the face of the planet.
I believe that these anomalies are due to be addressed as a prerequisite
to allowing checkin access to the community; I don't know anything about
the schedule for doing the fix.
Tres.
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