[cvsnt] Re: cvs server: warning: new-born newfile.txt has disappeared

[Bo Berglund]

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:02:20 -0300, Daniel Lapolla
<ldlapolla at yahoo.com> wrote:

>> Can you describe exactly what you're doing?
>
>Imagine that developer 1, working on CR 12345 creates the branch 
>br_cr_12345 on files A and B, and adds C directly in that branch.

How is this done? If youi have a new file in a sandbox that is updated
to HEAD then any file you add and commit will be added to TRUNK and
not to the branch of the few files you actually have located on the
branch.
Imagine the following:

You have a sandbox on HEAD.
Now you branch files 1, 2 and 3 to br_xxx and update these files to
retrieve the branch. The remainder of the sandbox is at HEAD.

Then you branch files 4, 5 and 6 to br_yyy and update these files to
retrieve the branch. Now you have 3 files on br_xxx, 3 files on br_yyy
and the remainedr on HEAD.

Now you cvs add a new file.
What is CVS supposed to do in this case? Add it to br_xxx or to br_yyy
or to TRUNK? In my view CVS as only one way to know what to do and
this is when you have updated the sandbox *directory* to the branch,
then CVS reco´rds this in the CVS metadata and it will add the new
file to the branch.

Is this what you are doing?
If not then I don't see how you can get the new file to the branch at
all.


/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)