RE: Official sources vs. RCVS

[Cameron, Steve]

Hey, alright! feedback!

Derek Price wrote:

> Okay, it applied and compiled fine, but I've already found a bug:  if
> the executable can find the tag in val-tags, it won't provide an error
> when the specified tag doesn't exist in a file.In the above case, it
> seems to be assuming the requested file is empty.  This seems to happen
> regardless of whether a magic tag is specified.
        [smc]  Hmm.  Ok,   And plain, unpatched CVS 1.11 behaves 
        in the same way when I tried it.  (as you say, regardless of 
        whether a magic tag is specified)  I'm not sure I understand 
        the significance of a tag existing in val-tags but not in the file.

        What does that mean?  What *should* it do in this case?  
        should  "val-tags_only_tag" behave differently than 
        "val-tags_only_tag.origin" or "val-tags_only_tag.trunk"?

> When I attempt to apply '.origin' to a static tag I am told there is no
> such tag.  It would be nice if the error message was more descriptive.
> e.g. "magic tag '.origin' cannot be applied to static tag, 'statictag'".
        [smc]  Yeah, that's less than ideal, I suppose.  I can look into 
        trying to do something better there.

> Anyone want to argue the behavior of .trunk.origin?  I don't really like
> the current behavior and I don't think I'd care to maintain it.  Even a
> changing base is rather useless.  Maybe it could refer to the vendor
> branch (base of?  tip of?), but I'm not sure what else would be useful.
> I think I'd rather have this usage be invalid than the current dynamic
> behavior (which, I might add, can be duplicated using -r1.1 with most
> repositories).
        [smc]  
        So, perhaps the best thing to do is to say that ".trunk.origin"
        just doesn't make any sense and reject it early on. I can look 
        into making it do that, if that's preferable.

        However, I've fallen off the internet at home, I'm in the
        process of switching ISPs, and currently have no ISP.

        At work, I'm behind a firewall, plus too busy anyway.
        .
        So, it might take a few days before I'm back in business, 
        CVS-wise. 

        -- steve