From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
To: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Notes for CVS Converts
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:08:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1125515315.13577.53.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com> (raw)
Guys,
I was recently bitten by a cg-rm behavior where
it silently Did The Wrong Thing, IMO. I think
that other CVS Converts might stumble across the
same pitfall, so it might warrant a comment in
the documentation, perhaps in the "Notes For CVS
Users" section.
I am in the process of doing some file merging,
resulting in some files being eliminated from my
source tree. But I wasn't prepared to just out-right
delete my original files until some testing had
been completed first. So I moved my files out of
the way so the build would proceed without them.
Later, when I was satisfied the build was good, I
executed a "cg-rm floof/somefile.h" and then cg-commit'ed
them. However, I realized, they were not actually
removed from the cache.
Reading through "cg-rm", I figured out that it expected
to actually rm the files from the filesystem after first
proving they existed with a "find". That in turn also
drove the "git-cache-update --force-remove".
However, in my case I had already moved/removed the
original files. The "find" didn't find them and the
cache update didn't happen. And no output was generated
either. But I thought nothing of it; after all, "rm"
doesn't produce output when it works successfully.
So two possible suggestions here:
First, perhaps cg-rm should issue a warning if the
generated temporary file results in an empty list of
files to be removed (and then maybe with a --silent
option subsequently?),
Secondly, maybe the documentation needs a section with
"Notes for CVS Converts" section that clearly states
that cg-rm _expects_ to actually remove the file from
the filesystem, directly opposite the normal CVS behavior.
Thanks,
jdl
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2005-08-31 19:08 Jon Loeliger [this message]
2005-09-21 14:04 ` Notes for CVS Converts Petr Baudis
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