Re: Issue a command for more than one folder

Jerzy,

thank you for your explanations.

Of course my proposal for "fire and forget" plus allowing multifolder 
selections is too much of a change to do just before a "stable" 
version. But if a stable version is about to be released, why don't 
you create a branch now and limit the changes in that branch to those 
that fix regressions (=things that worked in a previous stable 
version)? I don't know what CVS server is running at SourceForge -- 
CVSNT has those branch points, so updating the trunk with each change 
in the "stable" branch is fairly easy. -- If there are reasons why 
this cannot be done, we can open a new branch.

The reason for me not to deepen the discussion is that I won't be 
having time to do that in the near future. I was just curious whether 
issuing a command for files from different folders can be 
considered "safe". In the absence of floods of bug reports for 
commands in flat view, I think we can assume this is the case. Multi-
folder commands would be useful in some cases for me (add, 
diff, ...), I would like to find a safe way to enable them.

I've posted a patch that fixes allows multi-folder adds quite a long 
time ago. It works well for me and uses a similar design to the one 
I've proposed. (It does not add folders, but this could be fixed 
easily.)

Next thing to do for me is to improve diff performance for multiple 
files.


Kind regards,

Kirill


--- In [email protected], "kaczoroj" <kaczoroj@...> wrote:
>
> Kirill,
> 
> We don't always have to agree on everything. This is why we have 
this 
> list - to discuss ;)
> 
> There was no discussions per se - just myself trying to stabilize 
> WinCvs so it behaves correctly and bug reports when it didn't ;) It 
> works now, and I don't say it's perfect but it does work without 
> creating too much problems. 
> 
> > I don't understand why a command for files from different 
> > folders in flat view is "safe" and the same command for 
> > two folders in the same folder in structured view is "unsafe".
> 
> This is the result of "field testing" done mostly by users. I don't 
> have time to study each command and discover when and why it works -
 I 
> just find the simplest way to make it work. In WinCvs it's to 
disallow 
> mixing folders and files. In CvsIn it's one command in each folder. 
At 
> some later point in this new development cycle we will have another 
go 
> at this - but I don't feel this is the right time. Your recent 
> improvements are very useful and with any luck we can promote 
> development version to the status of stable. If we break basic 
things 
> now it will not happen for a long time. This is not to discourage 
you. 
> In fact you can probably create a brach for that - just so we can 
see 
> what code is involved. Perhaps I am over-cautions...
> 
> > (Doesn't mean that I want the former to be disallowed as well :-
) )
> 
> Too late - adding files is blocked for selection from different 
> folders already ;)
> 
> In this case the problem was that add must be performed in correct 
> order or it will fail - it was easier to just disable this 
function. 
> We will have to fix it at some point for sure.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Jerzy
>






 
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