From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 31 21: 3:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id B9CEE37B401; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:03:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:03:20 -0800 From: Juli Mallett To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: David Schultz , Mike Makonnen , sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seat-belt for source upgrades from stable to current Message-ID: <20030131210320.A2834@FreeBSD.org> References: <20030129191822.GO78848@starjuice.net> <20030131120311.F16630@aurema.com> <20030131030916.GA11445@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030131034043.GA53996@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20030131040506.GA11769@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030131043320.RQRP10203.pop017.verizon.net@kokeb.ambesa.net> <20030131053832.GA11988@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030201041710.GA57006@gothmog.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030201041710.GA57006@gothmog.gr>; from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr on Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 06:17:10AM +0200 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , , X-Towel: Yes X-LiveJournal: flata, jmallett X-Negacore: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * De: Giorgos Keramidas [ Data: 2003-01-31 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Seat-belt for source upgrades from stable to current ] > On 2003-01-30 21:38, David Schultz wrote: > > Thus spake Mike Makonnen : > > > Use the r version of the cvs commands (like cvs rlog and rdiff). They operate on > > > the repository remotely, so you don't need to have the files checked out localy. > > > > That's a pretty good solution, and I use those occasionally. It > > would be a perfect solution if there were an 'rupdate', so I don't > > have to (cd /tmp; cvs co src/file/i/want.c) > > && cp /tmp/src/file/i/want.c /where/i/want/it > > && rm -rf /tmp/src > > all the time. > > # cd /tmp > # cvs -d 'repo magic' export -rHEAD src/file/i/want.c > > Does `cvs export' do the trick for you? Further, export -d somedir might be useful in this situation to get the files where you want them, though sometimes -d does not DWIM, so I'm not sure :) -- Juli Mallett AIM: BSDFlata -- IRC: juli on EFnet OpenDarwin, Mono, FreeBSD Developer ircd-hybrid Developer, EFnet addict FreeBSD on MIPS-Anything on FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message