Re: Re: Suggestion for improved use of cvs checkout to update sandboxes

Tony Hoyle <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:49:51 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.gui.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
kaczoroj wrote:

> I think we could convince Tony to implement the caching of module in 
> CVS metadata. Eventually we could have additional option for checkout 
> command, like '-U', to make checkout read the modules and don't 
> require explicitic module specification.

It can't be done, because of the way that modules are implemented.  By the 
time the server sends the data to the client all the information is lost a 
long time ago.

This is what modules2 fixes.  There is no need for such hacks if the module is 
defined as this as it's done properly.

Tony


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