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I appreciate the sorting by state feature. It is very useful to me and
does reduce my error rate.
As I see it, relying entirely on sorting by state assumes that:
* The user will not make any mistakes
* All files are added / checked in when checkins are done
These assumptions do not match my situation:
* I'm doing machine tool control work and sometimes work in a lab /
machine shop. There can be hammering, riveting and people cutting
metal with power saws.
* There are interruptions.
* I get switched to different projects sometimes, leaving code
half-written. I do not want to discard this work.
* I'm working on project A which shares a common code library (call
it Lib01) with project B. Sometimes I do partial checkins to e.g.
make Lib01 additions available to project B.
It seems to me that occasional user errors are unavoidable. I would
like to be able to detect user error easily once it occurs.
My existing files are under one directory structure, call it C:\Projects\.
I want to update (read-only is fine) the same repository contents into
another directory, call it C:\TestBuild\. I will then perform a build
in C:\TestBuild\ to test the repository contents.
Is there an existing way to do this?
Thank you and best regards,
Scott Willis
On 7/26/2011 6:40 AM, syntevo Support wrote:
>> I want to detect Non-CVS files that should have been
>> checked in.
> Well, SmartCVS allows to show all files recursively and puts non-CVS files before unchanged files. What else should it do to prevent user error?
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> Thomas Singer
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> 07/26/2011 07:30 - Technophile wrote:
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>> To detect when a checkin issue such as a missing file occurs and will break
>> the build, I want to create a duplicate project directory. I want to check
>> in from my development (project) directory into the repository, update a
>> duplicate (build-check) directory from the repository, then do a build in
>> the duplicate (build-check) directory to detect any problems. So far I've
>> not figured out how to make SmartCVS do this.
>>
>> I've tried Export Backup, however Non-CVS files were copied. This seems to
>> make a copy of the local directory instead of giving me a copy of what is in
>> the repository. I want to detect Non-CVS files that should have been
>> checked in.
>>
>> Anyone know how to do this? Thanks in advance!
>> Technophile
>>
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does reduce my error rate.
As I see it, relying entirely on sorting by state assumes that:
* The user will not make any mistakes
* All files are added / checked in when checkins are done
These assumptions do not match my situation:
* I'm doing machine tool control work and sometimes work in a lab /
machine shop. There can be hammering, riveting and people cutting
metal with power saws.
* There are interruptions.
* I get switched to different projects sometimes, leaving code
half-written. I do not want to discard this work.
* I'm working on project A which shares a common code library (call
it Lib01) with project B. Sometimes I do partial checkins to e.g.
make Lib01 additions available to project B.
It seems to me that occasional user errors are unavoidable. I would
like to be able to detect user error easily once it occurs.
My existing files are under one directory structure, call it C:\Projects\.
I want to update (read-only is fine) the same repository contents into
another directory, call it C:\TestBuild\. I will then perform a build
in C:\TestBuild\ to test the repository contents.
Is there an existing way to do this?
Thank you and best regards,
Scott Willis
On 7/26/2011 6:40 AM, syntevo Support wrote:
>> I want to detect Non-CVS files that should have been
>> checked in.
> Well, SmartCVS allows to show all files recursively and puts non-CVS files before unchanged files. What else should it do to prevent user error?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Thomas Singer
> =============
> syntevo GmbH
> http://www.syntevo.com
> http://blog.syntevo.com
>
>
> 07/26/2011 07:30 - Technophile wrote:
>
>> To detect when a checkin issue such as a missing file occurs and will break
>> the build, I want to create a duplicate project directory. I want to check
>> in from my development (project) directory into the repository, update a
>> duplicate (build-check) directory from the repository, then do a build in
>> the duplicate (build-check) directory to detect any problems. So far I've
>> not figured out how to make SmartCVS do this.
>>
>> I've tried Export Backup, however Non-CVS files were copied. This seems to
>> make a copy of the local directory instead of giving me a copy of what is in
>> the repository. I want to detect Non-CVS files that should have been
>> checked in.
>>
>> Anyone know how to do this? Thanks in advance!
>> Technophile
>>
>> --
>> View this message in context:
>> http://old.nabble.com/Duplicate-view---directory-for-detecting-build-breakage-tp32136161p32136161.html
>> Sent from the SmartCVS - Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------
>>
>> Yahoo! Groups Links
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
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