Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 13:41:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, nate@yogotech.com Subject: Re: local changes to CVS tree Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109051339380.24154-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <200109051925.f85JPce08130@vashon.polstra.com>
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As a workaround, people could just gat the source each week and do an cvs import into the vendor branch via script.. (of course with doing it correctly you could have matching version numbers on the vendor branch) On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, John Polstra wrote: > In article <15254.31457.818766.916542@nomad.yogotech.com>, > Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> wrote: > > >=20 > > > Any chance of getting CVSup to transfer from a remote repository > > > to a local vendor branch, instead of from a remote repository to > > > a local repository? > >=20 > > The problem is that you aren't just transferring bits from the HEAD, bu= t > > from multiple active branches. As John already stated, CVS doesn't > > handle multiple 'vendor' branches well (and in this case, the FreeBSD > > tree has vendor (CSRG) branches, FreeBSD vendor branches (RELENG_2, > > RELENG_3, ..., contrib vendor branches (TCSH, GCC, etc..) > >=20 > > CVS is simply not setup to do what you ask. :( >=20 > No, Terry's idea is sound as long as you only try to track one branch > of FreeBSD. I.e., you consider FreeBSD to be your vendor, and you do > a checkout-mode type of fetch from a branch of the FreeBSD repository > and directly import it onto your own vendor branch. This would meet > the needs of a lot of people, e.g., companies who make products based > on FreeBSD. >=20 > I have had this on my to-do list for a long time, but I have no idea > if or when it'll ever get implemented. It would require a focused > period of working on it that I just don't have these days. Maybe if > the economy gets worse ... >=20 > John > --=20 > John Polstra jdp@polstra.= com > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington = USA > "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Ch=F6gyam Tr= ungpa >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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