clemens fischer wrote: > Micah Cowan wrote: > >> 1. Check out OpenBSD CVS, as of a version that has already been >> synched to SourceForge, and hasn't yet been changed since that synch. > > Sounds like a race.
Yes, it is. I usually win, because it's just NicM checking in. Also, if I miss some tiny change, I may not care whether I got it or not. >> 2. When I become aware of changes to OpenBSD CVS, I make a copy of the >> current CVS working directory, update the original, and then diff -ru >> between them. > > Sounds like magic, or do you follow commit messages? Is there something > like an OpenBSD mailing list for commits? I know FreeBSD has a number > of those, very high volume, though. After they changed to subversion, > I had a script that stored my local version number, updated to HEAD and > gave a log of the changes in reverse chronological order. I just check the OpenBSD CVS web interface (the one linked from http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ and sort by age. >> I imagine, for someone who just wants the latest and isn't writing >> code, you could do the reverse: compare a "same" SF against OpenBSD, >> import the resulting diff as a quilt patch in the OpenBSD CVS, and >> then whenever there are new changes in OpenBSD, "quilt pop; cvs up; >> quilt push". > > Have you ever tried the mercurial quilt plugin? With mercurial it is > possible to convert regular changesets to a quilt series and back > anytime. > > But since you have to fix up CVS-IDs in between, using raw quilt is > propably more flexible. Right; I have no desire to sync a hg repo with cvs. However, my quilt patches dir is itself a mercurial repo, so I never lose my patches. -- Micah J. Cowan http://micah.cowan.name/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
