[Zope-dev] ZCVS Mixin class... feedback sought.

[Jonothan Farr]

> Good questions!
>
> You can just go to the 'admin' tab and type 'diff'.
> The admin tab lets you execute just about any cvs command
> with arguments.... stat, rtag etc etc.....

Doing a diff on a zexp file isn't going to be very helpful, though. Any thoughts
on integrating some sort of xml diff tool?

>
> Conflicts.. uh... bad news. ;-)  I think it's essentially
> impossible to 'merge' two different versions of a zope
> object... so my plan would be to pick one version, or the
> other.
>
> Login and logout are handled when you set up the directory
> on the filesystem. Basically you need to 'checkout'
> a module (maybe an empty module) into a directory
> on the filesystem before you can use it to keep the
> xml representations of your Zope objects. That checkout,
> might, or might not, require a login, depending on your
> CVSROOT. You must 'be' the zope user (the same user that
> the zope process runs as) when you checkout the module,
> so that zope can manage the contents.

So essentially all checkins are by the same cvs user, so you lose the ability to
track accountability? I'd like to see something that was on a per-user basis,
maybe tied to the zope user, maybe not.

There's been a ton of talk about a zope cvs product. I've been thinking about
giving it a shot for a while now. I'm excited to see someone actually doing
something about it. I'd be glad to help out however I can. Especially since now
you've taken the killer name. ;)

--jfarr