From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 8 14:34:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17400 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 14:34:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17335 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 14:33:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA28272; Fri, 8 May 1998 14:33:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 14:33:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Castor Fu cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup and CVS with active developers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 May 1998, Castor Fu wrote: > I've been trying to understand CVS and cvsup, and how they work > together, and I'm confused. > > My central question is as follows: > Does someone who's actively working on a code base still use > cvsup? Yes. They do all their work on a branch, and when it's time to commit it they can use CVS's merge features to generate a set of patches. > If so, how do the changes get propagated to the > original source? CVSUP is a one-way street -- the user must commit changes to the main tree themselves. For the checkout modes, it's dependent on what the user wants. I personally maintain CVS trees vs. checkout mode since I like to look at the commit logs and perhaps grab different versions of the files (RELENG_2_2 vs. HEAD for instance). People who are doing daily-make-worlds probably don't need that level of control (or disk use). > Finally: Any plans for adding authentication to cvsup? I suppose > using ssh as described in the man pages is one way. . . That could be a handy feature. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message