Re: Buglet when building Gtk-perl from cvs

["Peter Haworth" <pmh edison ioppublishing com>]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:57:42 -0500, muppet wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 05:25 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>
> > On 17 Nov 2003 08:01:48 -0500, muppet wrote:
> > > heh, yeah, that got committed to the wrong branch by accident; i
> > > couldn't remember if branching sets the sticky tag in your working
> > > copy.  answer: it doesn't.
> >
> > It does if you tell it to. "cvs update -r $branch" makes the tags
> > sticky. The same applies to "checkout", too.
>
> yes, but "cvs tag -b $branch" does not offer such an option -- you must 
> update to get the sticky tag, because tag works on the repository.  
> that's what bit me.

I'm sure the designers considered such functionality, and decided it wasn't
necessary. Surely more devlopers create a branch and carry on working on the
original branch than immediately start using the new branch? I mean, that's
only sensible, right? :-)

> i would love to be told (accurately :-) that's not true...

I wish it made sense, too.

-- 
        Peter Haworth   pmh edison ioppublishing com
"Thou shalt check the array bounds of all strings (indeed, all arrays),
 for surely where thou typest `foo' someone someday shall type
 `supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'."
                -- Henry Spencer's "Ten Commandments for C Programmers"