Re: creating branches

Comments below.


> From: Ross Cohen <rcohen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Mike Beard <mike_beard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [cdv-devel] creating branches
> Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:06:11 -0400
>
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 11:35:07AM -0400, Mike Beard wrote:
> > M:\MyStuff\codeville\test>cdvserver -n
> > Listening for clients...
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File "C:\Python24\Scripts\cdvserver.py", line 281, in ?
> >    retval = run(argv[1:])
> >  File "C:\Python24\Scripts\cdvserver.py", line 260, in run
> >    signal.signal(signal.SIGHUP, signal_handler)
> > AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SIGHUP'
> >
> > ---------------------------------------
> >
> > Any idea of what I'm doing wrong?
>
> You're not doing anything wrong. The server hasn't been tested on Windows.
> Looks like Windows doesn't have all of the UNIX signals. cdvserver only
> looks for 4 of them. If you're willing to comment them out when it 
> complains
> and tell me which ones don't work, I'll patch the code to not try those on
> Windows.

I'll let you know the ones that don't work, then.  Might be a couple of days 
before I get back to you though.

> That's the last thing it does before listening for clients, so it should
> work after you remove the offending calls.

Good deal!  I'll go comment them out ASAP.

> > I'm assuming, in general, that I need the server going when I'm using my
> > repository with the client (does it synch with the server repository?) .
> > Especially when I'm wanting to do something like create a branch or 
> merge a
> > branch.  Is this correct?  Otherwise, the server (localhost) doesn't 
> need
> > to be running within the local repository.
>
> Only a few operations touch the server. Explicit create and destroy of
> branches on the server, listing branches, etc. Aside from those, only
> update and commit (which include branching and merging) will touch it.
> History browsing, diffing and others are completely local.
>
> Ross

Thanks for your help Ross!

Regards,
Mike


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