>
>
>> Mattias, this is probably unnecessary, since this 'browsing'
>> functionality is really part of the reason we're using the WebDAV
>> protocol.
>
>
> I hope you will reconsider this. The only reason an 'ls' was not put
> into CVS is because of the limitations the CVS development group put
> on commits. There are several patches that implement this floating
> around because so many people considered it useful. You could
> approximate the functionality by using "cvs -n co ." but it was
> entirely hackish.
>
> Because of this limitation, the cvs GUI clients were always inferior
> to many other versioning systems. Some have clients that provide
> access to the repository as a tree, with both directories and files
> expandable. The files expand to show you the revisions of the file (in
> svn, it would be just the revisions where a file changed, I guess).
> You can perform a checkout from anywhere within the tree you are
> browsing, even on a particular revision if you like.
>
> Because of the lack of an 'ls' in cvs, its clients never implemented
> this. Instead, they relied on developers just knowing the structure of
> the repository. Because any reasonably complex project is not easily
> memorizable, developers end up switching back and forth between their
> browser (pointing to Greg's excellent ViewCVS) and their cvs client.
>
> I'm not that particular about whether the command line client exposes
> 'ls' functionality (although I don't see why not), but I think it
> would be highly desirable to include this within the client library.
> If you don't, then we end up with the same scenario of switching
> between multiple tools just to perform a checkout.
Yeah, I agree that this is a really bad limitation to CVS that even
WebDAV doesn't entirely fix, that will *hopefully* get addressed.
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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:51 2006