Folks have recently discussed things like "egcs_update" and other
related scripts that attempt to check out/update certain "master" files
before doing a checkout of "derived" files.
I was thinking about this, as I've hacked egcs_update for 2 other
project to get around the same problem on projects that check in these
derived files.
Before saying something stupid on the CVS list, I thought I'd try my
idea out here!
A possible solution to this problem might be:
- on checkin, check the files in with the timestamp on the "local" file
- on checkout/update, get the list of files that will be "messed with"
and simply do the work in oldest -> newest order
The questions that come to mind are:
- Will this work?
- Will it break anything?
- Would it be difficult to do?
Harlan
