On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 19:59:39 EST, James Howard wrote:
> The problem is how do we keep up with -STABLE afterwards? Using
> CVSup, out changes will get clobbered every time. Is there a facility
> where you can keep up with the source but let local modifications
> through?
CVS does this beautifully. The only problem is that you need access to
a repo. If you were closer, I'd offer you anoncvs. Try to find an
anoncvs server near you.
The most viable alternative I've used is a shell script that patches the
checked out sources with copies of patches in a specified directory.
This worked well for me until my local guru pointed out that what
you want to do here is _exactly_ what CVS does for you. CVSup was
not designed for synchronizing checked out sources (although it has
certainly become very popular for just that). Here, you're running into
a limitation of CVSup.
Of course, since I haven't used CVSup in a long time, it's quite
possible that jdp has added CVS-like merging and conflict resolution to
CVSup. ;-)
Hopefully, you either have good bandwidth or lots of disk. If you have
good bandwidth, use CVS. If you have lots of disk, use CVSup to keep a
local repo and use CVS to synchronize your checked out sources against
that repo.
Ciao,
Sheldon.
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