Discourage cvs-import

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Thu Feb 22 21:05:23 UTC 2007


John Dennis wrote:
>> Please at least don't break cvs-import.sh for non-initial commits.  It's
>> _way_ more pleasant to use when updating tarballs than make upload or
>> make new-source.
> 
> +1
> 
> cvs-import is the most sane way to update an rpm when we are upstream.
> There are quite a few rpm's for which we are the upstream and importing
> into 'dist cvs' is just the final step after preparing a new release. I
> really don't want some tool forcing me to review the changes I just made
> to make sure I approve of my own work.

You aren't the type of people that we want to guard against.

We want to guard against:
- people checking stuff in, blindly blowing away whatever might be 
there. (in cases where other people might have added fixes)
- checking stuff in that did not even have a cursory sanity check of 
"cvs diff" that often catches stupid mistakes.

I don't think we should break cvs-import.sh for non-initial commits, but 
instead discourage its use unless the user really knows what they are doing.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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