Re: [techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system... (was: [techtalk] New here)

2001-04-30 Thread jenn
Mary Gardiner wrote: > btw can anyone give me a run down on this situation: > > X outside project (say an open source project) has a cvs tree. I want to be able > to import their CVS tree, whilst at the same time maintaining my own tree, probably > minor, of changes, and resyncing every so ofte

Re: [techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system... (was: [techtalk] New here)

2001-04-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:10:42AM -0400, Laurel Fan wrote: > Excerpts from linuxchix: 30-Apr-101 Re: [techtalk] Re: Write do.. by > Mary [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > X outside project (say an open source project) has a cvs tree. I > > want to be able to import their CVS tree, whilst at the same time >

Re: [techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system... (was: [techtalk] New here)

2001-04-30 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 30-Apr-101 Re: [techtalk] Re: Write do.. by Mary [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X outside project (say an open source project) has a cvs tree. I > want to be able to import their CVS tree, whilst at the same time > maintaining my own tree, probably minor, of changes, and resyncing >

Re: [techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system... (was: [techtalk] New here)

2001-04-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:02:16PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mary Gardiner wrote: > > > > 2) I don't share my private work with others much, so I don't need to revision > > track so carefully. > > Nah.. but CVS acts as a bloody useful backup as well. :) Yeah. btw can anyone give me a

Re: [techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system... (was: [techtalk] New here)

2001-04-30 Thread jenn
Mary Gardiner wrote: > 2) I don't share my private work with others much, so I don't need to revision > track so carefully. Nah.. but CVS acts as a bloody useful backup as well. :) Jenn V. -- "Do you ever wonder if there's a whole section of geek culture you miss out on by

Re: [techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system... (was: [techtalk] New here)

2001-04-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:42:30PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Recently discovered tagging 'good' versions so I can try things out, although > > most people considering branches my private work a tiny bit obsessive. > > Why should you treat your private work with any less respect than > y

Re: [techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system...(was: [techtalk] New here)

2001-04-29 Thread Magni Onsoien
Julie: > What I'd like is for someone who has used both to give a sort > of comparitive analysis. I've not been able to find a working > SCCS package for Linux, or at least one that will work with the > dozens of SCCS files I have from Really Old Projects. So I > guess it's time to move to somet

Re: [techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system...(was: [techtalk] New here)

2001-04-29 Thread Julie
From: Eric R. Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Julie wrote: > > I used to use SCCS (to the point that when IBM legal asked me to > > prove I own Shadow I offered to bring in the SCCS files going back > > to 1987) all the time. How does CVS compare to it? Assume I have > > all ki

Re: [techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system...(was: [techtalk] New here)

2001-04-29 Thread Eric R. Turner
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Julie wrote: > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Telsa Gwynne wrote: > > > > > > >> Has anyone here actually tried using something like CVS to track /etc?? > > > > > > I'm sure I was talking to someone who kept a lot of their configuration > > > files in CVS. I shall track them d

Re: [techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system... (was: [techtalk] New here)

2001-04-29 Thread jenn
Mary Gardiner wrote: > Recently discovered tagging 'good' versions so I can try things out, although > most people considering branches my private work a tiny bit obsessive. Why should you treat your private work with any less respect than your paying work? Jenn V. -- "Do you ever wond

Re: [techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system... (was: [techtalk] New here)

2001-04-29 Thread Julie
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Telsa Gwynne wrote: > > > >> Has anyone here actually tried using something like CVS to track /etc?? > > > > I'm sure I was talking to someone who kept a lot of their configuration > > files in CVS. I shall track them down and find out what exactly it was. > > Dancer an

Re: [techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system... (was: [techtalk] New here)

2001-04-29 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:37:26AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Telsa Gwynne wrote: > > > >> Has anyone here actually tried using something like CVS to track /etc?? > > > > I'm sure I was talking to someone who kept a lot of their configuration > > files in CVS. I shall track them down and

Re: [techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system... (was: [techtalk] New here)

2001-04-29 Thread jenn
Telsa Gwynne wrote: >> Has anyone here actually tried using something like CVS to track /etc?? > > I'm sure I was talking to someone who kept a lot of their configuration > files in CVS. I shall track them down and find out what exactly it was. Dancer and I keep promising ourselves to. We're e

Re: [techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system... (was: [techtalk] New here)

2001-04-29 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 02:00:36PM +0100 or thereabouts, James Sutherland wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: > > > On Sunday 29 April 2001 12:49, Sandrine Burriel wrote: > > .. > > > I'm > > .. > > > using linux occasionnally (because I'm mostly required to work > > > on windo

[techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system... (was: [techtalk]New here)

2001-04-29 Thread James Sutherland
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: > On Sunday 29 April 2001 12:49, Sandrine Burriel wrote: > .. > > I'm > .. > > using linux occasionnally (because I'm mostly required to work > > on windows...) but willing to learn. I'm supposed to trade my > > old Mandrake 7.1 this week for a slack

Write down while you are modifying the system... (was: [techtalk] New here)

2001-04-29 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
On Sunday 29 April 2001 12:49, Sandrine Burriel wrote: .. > I'm .. > using linux occasionnally (because I'm mostly required to work > on windows...) but willing to learn. I'm supposed to trade my > old Mandrake 7.1 this week for a slackware or deb, still not > sure... If you want to give me some

[techtalk] New here

2001-04-29 Thread Sandrine Burriel
Hi everyone ! Since I'm new on this mailing list, I thought I'd better introduce myself... I'm a 23 yr old French chick ;-) currently an engineering student and majoring in computer science, also taking a Bachelor's degree in English for fun. My interests are : - reading - listening t