[drupal-devel] Re: [contributions(DRUPAL-4-5):sheldon]
Jim Riggs wrote:
So what's up with all of contrib being tagged for 4.5 this morning? Did that mess up the branching of a lot of contrib? All of my modules look fine, because they already had 4.5 branches. Items that didn't, though, may now be branched even though they don't work with 4.5. Looks like some repair work may be in order...
This is my mistake. I apologize. I was trying to simply tag my interwiki module, and got confused by the program I'm using (CVL on Mac OS X). It has a "Tag Files" command in its "Work Area" menu, so I selected the interwiki module in my work area and then selected the "Tag Files" command. To my surprise, it started iterating through all of contrib, and I didn't know how to stop it. After this happened, I realized that there's a separate "Tag" command in CVL's "File" menu. I'm guessing that this is what I should have used. I'm new to CVS and to CVL, and this isn't the first frustrating experience I've had with it. However, it's the first time that something like this has negatively affected Drupal's contributions repository. Once again, I apologize, but in my defense, the interface to CVL is pretty damn confusing. I'd like to find a simple tutorial so I can learn how to just use CVS directly from my terminal command line. Can someone point me to one? --Sheldon
This is my mistake. I apologize. I was trying to simply tag my interwiki module, and got confused by the program I'm using (CVL on Mac OS X). It has a "Tag Files" command in its "Work Area" menu, so I selected the interwiki module in my work area and then selected the "Tag Files" command. To my surprise, it started iterating through all of contrib, and I didn't know how to stop it.
After this happened, I realized that there's a separate "Tag" command in CVL's "File" menu. I'm guessing that this is what I should have used.
I'm new to CVS and to CVL, and this isn't the first frustrating experience I've had with it. However, it's the first time that something like this has negatively affected Drupal's contributions repository.
Once again, I apologize, but in my defense, the interface to CVL is pretty damn confusing. I'd like to find a simple tutorial so I can learn how to just use CVS directly from my terminal command line. Can someone point me to one?
The FAQ and the contributors guide outlines the commands used to checkout, commit, tag, etc. the files. The above confusions are the very reason that the php.net projects suggest contributors TO NOT USE visual CVS tools. They always mess up. All the time. Goba
On 04 Apr 2005, at 10:40, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
This is my mistake. I apologize. I was trying to simply tag my interwiki module, and got confused by the program I'm using (CVL on Mac OS X). It has a "Tag Files" command in its "Work Area" menu, so I selected the interwiki module in my work area and then selected the "Tag Files" command. To my surprise, it started iterating through all of contrib, and I didn't know how to stop it. After this happened, I realized that there's a separate "Tag" command in CVL's "File" menu. I'm guessing that this is what I should have used. I'm new to CVS and to CVL, and this isn't the first frustrating experience I've had with it. However, it's the first time that something like this has negatively affected Drupal's contributions repository. Once again, I apologize, but in my defense, the interface to CVL is pretty damn confusing. I'd like to find a simple tutorial so I can learn how to just use CVS directly from my terminal command line. Can someone point me to one?
Does that mean all Drupal 4.5 releases are messed up now? Err. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/
On Monday 04 April 2005 00:39, Sheldon Rampton wrote:
Once again, I apologize, but in my defense, the interface to CVL is pretty damn confusing. I'd like to find a simple tutorial so I can learn how to just use CVS directly from my terminal command line. Can someone point me to one?
For what it's worth, I don't care for the visual CVS tools in KDE (a Linux desktop) either. Nothing against the code itself, I just find it less clear than the direct command-line interface to CVS. For learning CVS, try the book "Open Source Development with CVS" by Karl Fogel. It is published by CoriolisOpen Press, and part of the book is available under GPL for free download. The hardcopy edition (which IMO is worth having as a desk reference...I use mine often) is ISBN 1-57610-490-7 (paperback, circa 300 pages). Coriolis is at http://www.coriolis.com (or you can order from Borders, B&N, Amazon, etc.). I'm not suggesting this as an alternative to the FAQ and Drupal Contrib Guide, but rather as an additional resource after you've read those online docs, to help understand *why* the steps in the instructions work the way they do. CVS is a useful skill set in its own right, worth adding to your CV. :-) Scott -- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------ Scott Courtney | "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them scott@4th.com | having a bad operating system." -- Linus Torvalds http://4th.com/ | ("The Rebel Code," NY Times, 21 February 1999) | PGP Public Key at http://4th.com/keys/scott.pubkey
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