[Dart] Update step

Blezek, Daniel J (CRD) blezek at crd.ge.com
Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:15:31 -0500


This is a good suggestion, in some cases, the -d option is not desirable.  I'll try to get to this
change today.

-dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad King [mailto:brad.king at kitware.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 12:11 PM
> To: Dart
> Subject: [Dart] Update step
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Currently, it looks like the following line is used to 
> generate the cvs
> update command:
> 
>   set UpdateCommand "$cvs update -d -P -A"
> 
> It would be nice if there were a way to run a dashboard build on a cvs
> branch given a tag.  Currently we do this by skipping the 
> update step and
> doing it manually in the cron job (please correct me if I'm wrong).
> 
> I suggest that we either remove the "-A" and let the user 
> have the source
> tree checked out on a particular branch, or change it to 
> something like
> this:
> 
>   set UpdateCommand "$cvs update -d -P $cvsUpdateOptions"
> 
> Then, we add the update options variable to the 
> configuration.  It would
> allow the user to configure an update as "-r foo-branch".
> 
> Thoughts?
> -Brad
> 
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