RE: Reimporting vendor projects where items have been deleted

[Stephen Rasku]

Nathan Herring wrote:
>
>Is there some place to make feature requests such as this one?
>
>I'd like to have the option on successive imports to mark as deleted 
any
>files that previously existed on that vendor branch that are not in 
the
>import. 
>
>To wit,
>
>cvs import -m "version 1" themodule vendor vendor-v1
>>cvs creates themodule/file, with versions 1.1.1.1, 1.1, and "vendor"
>vendor branch 1.1.1.
>cvs import -m "version 2" themodule vendor vendor-v2
>>cvs notices that file isn't in the import, but it is on the "vendor"
>branch, and so makes a new version 1.1.1.2 marking the file as 
deleted.
>

I don't see why this is necessary.  If you do:

        cvs co -r vendor-v2 themodule
        
It will not check out any modules that don't have the vendor-v2 tag.  
For all intents and purposes it is deleted.

If you are making modifications to the source, then you should merge 
the changes to the head:

        cvs co -j vendor-v1 -j vendor-v2 themodule
        <Resolve any conflicts>
        cvs ci themodule
        
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