From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FAKE_REPLY_C, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6511c3dc6e1155c9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: CVS front-ends Date: 16 Oct 2004 09:22:29 -0400 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1097932984 57105 212.85.156.195 (16 Oct 2004 13:23:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:23:04 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <1097894208.513443@yasure> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5317 Date: 2004-10-16T09:22:29-04:00 Benjamin Ketcham writes: > Ludovic Brenta wrote: > > Stephen Leake writes: > >> If Meta-CVS is a purely client tool, then each developer can use it > >> or not; it doesn't have to be a project-wide choice. > > > > Yes, it has to be project-wide. The way Meta-CVS works is this: > > Oh goody, more layers. > Shouldn't it really be called "Meta-Meta-RCS"? > > > - every file in your source tree gets a unique ID > > > > - every file is stored in the root directory of the module in the CVS > > server under that ID > > > > - a separate text file establishes the mapping between the unique IDs > > and the path name of each file > [...] > > Seems eerily reminiscent of Win32 "long filenames".... Yes. > Don't get me wrong, I think CVS is a half-baked hack with some > amazing oversights and omissions. Ok. > (And is the documentation situation still as frustrating?) I find the documentation adequate. > Still, it's the de facto standard half-baked hack, and by now all > the build-managers have written their own personal versions of the > scripts necessary to automate the common operations that CVS > overlooks or makes needlessly tedious/counterintuitive. Yes. That is the CVS philosophy; provide basic features, let people write higher level tools that fit their process. > This "Meta-CVS" would seem much more appealing if it *were* purely > client-side; has anyone attempted CVS improvements that way (I mean > more than just GUI front ends)? I've written some small extensions to Emacs pcl-cvs (aka pcvs). In particular, I have one function called cvs-dtrt, for "do the right thing" :). Given the pcl-cvs display, it invokes the appropriate action for the file under the cursor, or prompts the user if there is more than one. A minor function, but quite a productivity boost. See http://www.toadmail.com/~ada_wizard/ -- -- Stephe