Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:06:17 -0400 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> To: Andrew Hamilton-Wright <AHamiltonWright@MtA.ca> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: going from cvs to svnq Message-ID: <49D3D749.6000009@telenix.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904010816460.32642@qemg.org> References: <49D27B25.80003@telenix.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903311728390.60971@qemg.org> <49D2CEF9.9030304@telenix.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904010641100.32642@qemg.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904010816460.32642@qemg.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Hamilton-Wright wrote: > > Sorry to follow-up my own note, but . . . > > On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Andrew Wright wrote: > > [ further snippage of previous note ] > >> Strong Caveats: > >> o ***Early Adopter Warning***: There has not been (as far as I know) a >> general call for people to move to this type of repository access >> except >> for committers -- therefore expect rough edges until a general >> announcement >> is made. > > I would further urge you to read: > http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/projects/GUIDELINES.txt?view=markup > for an overview of the information used by the committers, and will > further add: > > Even Stronger Caveat: > > o The "head" revision translates to something like "current" looking > around in > http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/ > will show you that there are directories other than "head" from > which branching is done. Some perusal of the svn manual and poking > around in the repository may help you track "current", but there > isn't anything in place yet to let you track "stable", for instance. I appreciate the URLs, but I think you're misinterpreting what I was asking. First, your comment about "isn't anything in place yet to let you track "stable",", That's not true. You could do this in cvsup, but seeing as I always cvsup the complete FreeBSD cvs archive, I would just do a checkout from my present archive using the stable branch I was interested. Do a "cvs status -v" of /usr/src/Makefile to get a complete listing of the names and numbers for all of the tags and branches you can checkout. In cvs, such things are sticky, so following a particular branch is no trick at all. Of course, clearing sticky tags/dates/branches that you set is equally easy to do. I can't figure out why you were telling me that stuff about HEAD and other branches. I think you my be wrong is what I *think* you said, you can branch any directory you want, at all. You can even branch a branch. Branches go against files, and cvs is rather stupid about directories. That's actually one of the things I like about svn, it knows about directories. I just need to know how to go about grabbing & updating FreeBSD's entire subversion archive. Once I grab that archive, I can play at my will, affecting no one else, I think (like cvs). What I was really after was a way to fetch the FreeBSD subversion archive. I already have a correct cvs-supfile to use with cvsup, to allow me to do daily updates of my cvs archive. If I found out how to get the subversion one instead, I guess I would stop tracking the cvs archive. I don't know if I'd use something like cvs2svn to convert my present archive, or just fetch the new archive from scratch, I need to see what's the recommended way to go. But I do need to figure out how to get the subversion archive (not a particular branch of the archive, the whole kit and kaboodle). > > A. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknT10kACgkQz62J6PPcoOk85wCeKG4Izziyrte7N+8jcfKGAkz0 6E8Amwae3pq9cv+Gn71ua1q4HCJ+jDLp =Gp0/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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