[GRASS5] WARNING: CVS broken

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:13:19PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Markus:
> Some information might be lost by CVS commands.
> Source is never lost, but tags might.
> 
> In removing the irritating tag, which never should have been created
> in the first place, I also eliminated information on which files
> were on the tags.
> 
> Check the cvs status output which describes per file which revisions
> are tagged for what. cvs log describes which changes were done between 
> revisions. 

Well, if the non-branch-tag elimination also removed this tag description
(while keeping the sources) I feel that neither "cvs log" nor "cvs status"
can see anything (as it is removed). Hopefully I am wrong.

It is not clear to me *when* (Date) the non-branch tag
"releasebranch_11_april_2001_5_0_0" has been applied. This may reduce the
number of log-lines to analyse (at time 250k lines).
 
> All in all reading the Cederquist and examining the outputs of these
> commands will deeped your cvs knowledge for the future I think.
> So it is worth the time. 

Well, I try my very best :-)

If
 - we know when the non-branch tag was applied
 - we have a version shortly before the application

we might find out which code was removed due to the non-branch tag-removal?
Just another guess...

> Sorry that I cannot answer all questions in complete detail.
> 	Bernhard

Markus 
 
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 05:24:54PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > another followup:
> > 
> > I still try to understand *how* to interplete the cvs log file. As I
> > remember Glynn had the problem that d.rgb was added to the wrong
> > (non-)branch or whatever. So I focus on this module to understand
> > what's going on here.
> > 
> > So, using:
> > 
> > cvs log -d">2001-05-20" -r:releasebranch_11_april_2001_5_0_0 -wglynn |grep -v OBJ
> > 
> > to check for "glynn"'s checkins I have seen that d.rgb lives in the
> > "Attic" of CVS (most of other modules not).
> > 
> > Might the "Attic"-home of a module be an indicator for something has been
> > gone wrong?
> > 
> > Well, unless someone knows how use the "cvs log" in a useful manner,
> > I'll stop the investigation...
> > 
> > Markus
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