Re: [PATCH] cvsserver: fix legacy cvs client and branch rev issues

From: Dirk Koopman <djk@tobit.co.uk>
Date: Jun 17, 2007, 16:53 UTC
Message-ID: <46756707.5020805@tobit.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20070617103744.GE1828@planck.djpig.de>

Frank Lichtenheld wrote:

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> Summary: You're (ab)using cvsserver in very interesting ways that are not
> really beeing thought of in the current design/implementation. There'll
> be dragons ;)
>

Hmm... I think that is becoming clear. The trouble is that I am not at all certain that what I am doing is particularly unusual. After all, using git, the whole point is that working on branches or the main line should easy and cheap!

If it were me, I might have been inclined to always set Repository to 'master' (or even to the name of the repository with .git removed), then git checkout <tag> <file> each file, one at a time, using the (<tag> || 'master') from each Entry that is sent. So with no tag, you get the master copy, otherwise the <tag>ged copy - this all assuming that the git repo is set up correctly.

But as I am CVS read only, what is there does for me so I am not complaining :-) The two people that can also commit can start to use git and send me patches... Do them good :-)

Dirk