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To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Keeping using locally modified source
References: <200003030059.TAA29567@rac4.wam.umd.edu> <20000302171652.A22288@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
From: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
Date: 03 Mar 2000 11:47:55 +0100
In-Reply-To: Brooks Davis's message of "Thu, 2 Mar 2000 17:16:52 -0800"
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Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> writes:
> Yup, just use cvsup to maintain an up to date copy of the repository
> localy and then cvs checkout your source tree from there.  This allows
> you to keep in sync and keep local modifications in your tree.  Updates
> take longer and I recommend updating ports via direct cvsup instead of
> via cvs checkout (it's much faster if you aren't modifying ports), but
> it works quite well.

There's even a hack in FreeBSD cvs and cvsup to allow you to keep a
`local' branch that's not clobbered by cvsup, namely the environment
variable CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM.

/assar


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