CVS update: samba/source/lib/rpc/client

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at switchboard.net
Fri Mar 13 08:41:06 EST 1998


On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > 
> > no, don't do this: if you do this, then because of bugs in cvs, anyone
> > checking out a branch with a cvs tag will get the *main* branch version of
> > those files instead of the tagged ones.
> > 
> 
> Well that's the whole point. These files shouldn't exist
> in the 1_9_18_BRANCH, but should exist in the main branch
> and the NTDOM branch.
> 
> So I checked them out in the 1_9_18_BRANCH (they were
> then untagged),

this is the bug in cvs (or what i perceive to be a bug) that i am talking
about.

> tagged them with the 1_9_18_BRANCH tag
> (they now have a separate existance in this branch)
> and then did a cvs remove of them (only in this branch).

i hope that this doesn't mess things up for the other branches.

> Thus anyone doing a cvs co -r 1_9_18_BRANCH samba
> will not get the lib/rpc directory (as they should
> not).

agreed.
 
> > it is vital that the directory structure that exists in the BRANCH_NTDOM
> > branch also exist in the main branch.
> > 
> 
> It does. When you created the new directory
> structure did you tag everything in it with
> the BRANCH_NTDOM tag ?

in the BRANCH_NTDOM branch, yes.  however, when i did a cvs co it did not
create the tags.  only when i had also added the directory structure to
the main branch did a cvs co work correctly.

> I recon the change is correct. Maybe Andrew
> could comment.

yes please!



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