Date: 03 Mar 2000 11:47:55 +0100 From: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se> 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 Message-ID: <5laekg8h44.fsf@assaris.sics.se> In-Reply-To: Brooks Davis's message of "Thu, 2 Mar 2000 17:16:52 -0800" References: <200003030059.TAA29567@rac4.wam.umd.edu> <20000302171652.A22288@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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