[kepler-dev] [Bug 4328] New: - change-to command checks out across branches

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4328

           Summary: change-to command checks out across branches
           Product: Kepler
           Version: 1.x dev
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: build system
        AssignedTo: david.v.welker at gmail.com
        ReportedBy: berkley at nceas.ucsb.edu
         QAContact: kepler-dev at kepler-project.org


If kepler is currently in a branch, the change-to command should not update
from the trunk.  Once a branch is selected with the -Dbranch=xxx param, the
build system should keep the current workspace in the branch until the user
updated to another branch or the trunk.  The build system should also print a
banner alerting the user that he/she is working in a branch to avoid confusion. 

this bug arose when we added several modules to the trunk.  Matt was working in
a branch (unknowingly) and when he ran 'ant change-to -Dsuite=kepler' it
updated the kepler/module-info/modules.txt file from the trunk, but did not
update the rest of the modules to the trunk so the build failed.  The
build-area was also running from the branch so the excludes file was not
updated and would not allow him to build ptolemy.