Re: [Codestriker-user] branch on some files only

[David S. <si...@us...>]

Hi Dave,

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 02:53, Clendenan, Dave wrote:
> In our development we have long-lived branches on some files for a few
> projects, where the rest are taken from the tip.
>
> Using the branch tag in codestriker shows that all the files not on
> the branch have been deleted, which makes for large, messy review
> sets.  Sending 'rdiff -f' solves this problem, so I was thinking I'd
> add the option to select this behavior to the 'create new topic' page.

This is an interesting option, I've never seen it before.  Makes perfect 
sense in your case.  I guess a new checkbox for this option with a (?) 
link explaining what it means would be good.  I wonder if other SCM 
systems have a similar option.

> I'm also planning on writing a simple script that'll add a tag to a
> repository, and generate a codestriker topic comparing that tag with
> the one from the previous run.  This will be used for daily code
> comparisons, in conjunction with a scheduled nightly build.
>
> If anyone has comments on how this should be done (or if it's already
> done somewhere and I missed it :)  please let me know.

Make sure you use/extend the CodestrikerClient.pm module that lives in 
bin/.  This is used by CVS commit scripts for automatically creating 
topics for each commit (see the commit_prep.pl and log_accum.pl files in 
the bin directory).

This should give you a good head start.  You'll need to modify 
CodestrikerClient.pm so that it can create topics usings tags.  At the 
moment, it only creates topics from a file.  It shouldn't be too hard to 
extend this.

-- 
Cheers,
David