Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 23:20:54 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange CVS behavior Message-ID: <199801230620.XAA20023@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980122214522.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> References: <199801230459.VAA19866@mt.sri.com> <XFMail.980122214522.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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> > You didn't answer my question. Is it installed where the files in > > CVSROOT expects it. > > Sorry. I thought I did. none of the installation changed. A stock installation doesn't necessarily install perl where it's expected. (Even including the port) > > So, your machine isn't named freefall, so it doesn't matter that it's > > the FreeBSD tree or sources. > > > > The commitcheck doesn't/shouldn't allow connections except from > > freefall. The commit script sends email to people, and other > > misc. things are assumed if you use the stock files in the FreeBSD CVS > > tree. > > Oh, I understand that. I am not attempting to commit any of this. When I > use ``cvs add'' for my stuff, I get the benefit that ``cvs update'' and > ``cvs diff'' understand my desire for harnmoneous source tree and merge and > diff the entire delta my project does. I started doing this at the > suggestion of either Justin or David. And it works very well for my needs. cvs add doesn't do anything (really) unless you do a cvs commit, which requires (minor) modifications to the files in CVSROOT. Nate
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