Date: Tue, 19 Mar 96 11:46:24 MET From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> To: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: current@freebsd.org (Users of FreeBSD -current) Subject: How to develop software and track current? Message-ID: <199603191049.LAA00671@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de>
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I'm currently about to start some active work on the ISDN software,
and I face a problem: I'm also tracking -current. How to I ensure
that I get my updates to -current and also maintain the modifications
I make to the ISDN software? The problem is compounded by the fact
that I don't get on very well with cvs, so if the following text
contains nonsense, please be nice :-) I can see a number of
possibilities:
1. Create a new cvs tag, say "2.2-CURRENT-grog", and put all my
changes there. The problem I anticipate here are that I won't be
able to automatically track the ctm updates.
2. Check my changes in to 2.2-CURRENT every evening. This seems to
have a number of potential problems: first, if I forget to check
in, I lose my updates, and secondly, somebody else might check in
files which I have changed. Presumably the latter action would
cause the cvs update to blow up.
3. Create a new directory outside the control of cvs. This sounds
like a real kludge.
This is obviously a problem that a lot of people have already solved,
at least to their own satisfaction. If we can come up with a clean,
consistent way of doing it, I'll gladly contribute some documentation
on the subject.
Greg
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