Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:12:52 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: moke@fools.ecpnet.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: anoncvs server Message-ID: <199702251812.LAA26720@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199702250305.NAA11041@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Feb 25, 97 01:35:44 pm
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> > > Anoncvs is a pain in the ass. It's slow, misses things, and generally > > > requires lots of handholding. CVS is a lousy client. > > > > > > Use CVSup. > > > > > > > Well, if you can show me how to get CVSup to preserve my local changes it > > will work fine. I have read the faq, still no matter what I do the local > > sources get clobbered. And supposedly it is possible to do with CVSup. > > You wouldn't happen to have asked John Polstra now would you? It's not > like he's allergic to answering questions about his baby... The answer I have received in the past: "don't check in your local changes and use cvs merge, and manually resolve conflicts, normally". This really sucks out for several reasons: 1) I get no editing history for the stuff I do 2) I can not work on several "branches" of patches simultaneously 3) I can not integrate several brances of patches to build a set of sources containing all of them 4) I can not "drop" branches as the patches find themselves integrated into the main line code base (hah!) and the fact that they are local becomes obsoleted. Really, it's be nice if I could treat the FreeBSD-supplied tree as a vendor branch that gets updated... it wouldn't solve the propagation problems that bite us people without commit privs (#3 and #4) who can't use a commit to the real tree to update our local trees contents, with edit history. It also wouldn't solve inverse propagation of edit history for local changes which get integrated into the main branch (ie: you lose my rationale for some of my changes). But it would help. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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