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Re: [dash-dev] How to (or not to) develop on the dashboard commits explorer

What about the process of developing locally, checking in changes to
CVS, and using http://dash.eclipse.org/deploy/ to update from cvs?

Nick

On Feb 4, 2008 9:45 PM, Bjorn Freeman-Benson
<bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  Dash Team,
>  Karl and I did a lot of work today to fix bug 212140 and in the process of
> doing this we cleaned up the dash.eclipse.org:~dashboard tree. In order to
> keep it clean, we need to make a new rule:
>
>
> Do _not_ develop in the ~dashboard directory Develop in your local directory
> or dev box and use "cvs update" in ~dashboard to bring down the latest code.
> Thanks.
>
>  The reason for this new rule is that you cannot commit code from the
> ~dashboard directory. Thus if you write code in ~dashboard and then copy
> that code to another box to do the commit and then do a "cvs update" from
> ~dashboard, the files will be filled with merge comments even though the
> code is identical. And then the scripts will not run. And it makes a mess
> that someone then has to clean up.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Bjorn
>
> --
>  [end of message]
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