Re: checkin-set

Werner Donné <werner.donne@re.be> wrote on 04/12/2006 03:21:44 PM:

> >> each branch could be checked out if there is a workspace,
> >> which has a VCR, that is linked to the first version of that branch.
> > 
> > Not sure what you mean by "linking the VCR to the first version of 
that
> > branch".

> I meant a workspace with a VCR that was created with the first version
> of the branch/activity.

In general, there would not be (and would not need to be) such a 
workspace.

> > You indicate what branch/activity you are working on by setting the
> > DAV:current-activity of your workpspace to reference that 
branch/activity.

> I think this is the clue. If the current activity of a workspace is
> changed, can this affect the checked-in version of a VCR? Is the system
> allowed to set it to the most recent version within the activity if
> such a version exists?

You can do this, but you use the MERGE method (see section 13.12 in 
RFC-3253).
Changing the DAV:current-activity of the workspace has no effect
on the checked-in version of any VCR in the workspace. 
 
> > When you checkout a VCR, you checkout the version of that VCR
> > that is in that configuration, and if you want some other version to
> > appear in that configuration, you perform an UPDATE to make that
> > version appear in that workspace.

> Do I understand it correctly then that if a user wants to check out on a
> branch/activity within a version history he has to "import" the last 
version
> in that activity by making sure there is a VCR in his workspace that has
> its checked-in version set to it? Possibly the user has to create a VCR 
first
> in his workspace using that version.

Yes.

> If that is true, and assuming collections are supported, the user has 
the
> flexibility to create his own "directory tree" in his workspace with all 
the
> items he is working on.

He could do that, but it would be more useful for the collections to be 
under
baseline control, so that the user UPDATEs his workspace with a baseline,
which pulls in a consistent configuration of all of these items and of the
collections that contain them (so that the namespace of the files items is
under version control as well).

> On the other hand he always has to do this "import"
> action and manage this "directory tree". Would it be allowed to generate
> VCRs automatically when a workspace is created? For example, VCR /a/b/c 
would
> lead to /ws/myws/a/b/c.

Yes, that is what baselines and BASELINE-CONTROL of collections provides.

Cheers,
Geoff