From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 4 14:50:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46A4D16A41C for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 14:50:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from osl1smout1.broadpark.no (osl1smout1.broadpark.no [80.202.4.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD98443D1F for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 14:50:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from osl1sminn1.broadpark.no ([80.202.4.59]) by osl1smout1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IHK0027UEJYWMB0@osl1smout1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 04 Jun 2005 16:50:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dsa.des.no ([80.203.228.37]) by osl1sminn1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IHK00BVEEQ28L10@osl1sminn1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 04 Jun 2005 16:54:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dsa.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 765DD45535; Sat, 04 Jun 2005 16:50:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from xps.des.no (xps.des.no [10.0.0.12]) by dsa.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 8A98B45157; Sat, 04 Jun 2005 16:50:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: by xps.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 898A233C3B; Sat, 04 Jun 2005 16:50:14 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 16:50:14 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) In-reply-to: To: "Jeremy C. Reed" Message-id: <86r7firxax.fsf@xps.des.no> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on dsa.des.no References: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scripts for working with rcs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 14:50:24 -0000 "Jeremy C. Reed" writes: > I am looking for some ideas or scripts for working with rcs (or roll your > own) to help with the following: > > A project I use doesn't have any public CVS, but have snapshot tarballs. > > So I want to download via cron each night, extract and do a "ci" > check-in. > > I will be making my own local modifications also (which may conflict). So > I want to merge in the changes via rcsmerge (and diff3 -E style). Why do you want to use RCS for this? Use CVS, and import the nightly code drops on a vendor branch. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no