Re: [platform-team-dev] Marker CVS directories get deleted on "Refresh"

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You do realize that *you* are the reason
that people think our CVS support is so good. 

McQ.

Michael Valenta/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
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02/19/06 19:52

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Ed, 

There are several reasons why orphaned CVS folders are pruned. The main
reason is that, if the user copies or moves shared content, they expect
the CVS folders to be purged (there are other reasons as well but they
are more complex). It becomes difficult to differentiate the case where
the user copied or moved content (in which case the CVS folders should
be purged) from the case where the user checked out out additional content
from the repository and wants the CVS folders to remain. 

Is the project that contains the sub-modules shared with CVS through Eclipse.
It should be the case that orphaned CVS folders are only pruned in projects
that are shared with CVS. One option would be to disconnect the project
from CVS and see if that helps. I can't guarantee that it will since this
is not something we test for. If CVS folders are pruned from an unshared
project, this is definitely a bug. Please log a bug report if this is the
case. 

If you want to keep the project shared with CVS, there are a couple of
ways to prevent the CVS folders from being purged from the sub-modules.

1) Is the content all from the same repository? If so, the best way to
deal with this would be to define one or more modules in the CVSROOT/modules
file that would allow you to checkout everything at once as a project shared
from the root. This would ensure that the sub-modules are not orphaned
and would have the added benefit that you could perform CVS operations
on the sub-modules from within Eclipse. 

2) If it is not possible to define an appropriate module but the content
is from the same repository, you can use the Eclipse CVS Checkout wizard
to specifiy that you want to checkout content into an existing project.
This will create the necessary CVS folders in the parent folders and project
to enable CVS operation on the sub-modules. This would not be possible
if you have an automated process for checking out the sub-modules. However,
if this is the case, you could modify your checkout process to create the
required CVS folders and content. This would require that your checkout
process create the appropriate files in the CVS folders (just like the
CVS Checkout wizard does). 

3) If neither of the above two approaches are appropriate, another option
would be to add the sub-modules as links (i.e. check them each out as projects
and then create the submodules in your build project as Eclipse links.
The CVS plugin totally ignores the conteht in links.

If none of these work for you, it may be best to log a bug report about
this. 

Michael

"Ed Letifov" <ed.letifov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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02/19/2006 03:49 PM

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Hello, 
  
 After looking for quite long on the Eclipse site I’ve only found this
list to communicate to “team” developers… 
  
 I am trying to make Eclipse usable with a build system we have or vice
versa if you wish J
 The build system is based on Ant and CVS. 
 Once you checkout the top level module, the build system checks out the
sub-modules from separate CVS modules into the directory structure described
below. 
 The “modules” sub-directory does not contain CVS directories. Sub-modules
do. Now here is the problem – the moment I press refresh project in Eclipse,
all CVS directories in the sub-modules get deleted…
 From my view this should not be so. These are my directories; Eclipse
didn’t have to do anything with them, why does it delete them? 
  
+Top-Level CVS module 
            +CVS 
+Lib 
+Modules 
            +sub-module1
                    
   +CVS 
            +sub-module2
                    
   +CVS 
+Src 
Build.xml 
  
Can anyone please provide a hint how to disable this behaviour?
  
Best regards, 
Eduard Letifov 
Analyst/Programmer 
Information Services 
Metservice 
30 Salamanca Road, 
Kelburn 
Wellington 
PO Box 722 
Wellington 
+64 4 470 0842 
http://www.metservice.com
  
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