From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 10 3: 7:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC91337B401 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 03:07:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5BA143F3F for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 03:07:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:06:37 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 18iBle-0003n0-00; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:06:30 +0000 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:06:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Bill Moran Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone know a good place to ask CVS questions In-Reply-To: <3E46E098.3020102@potentialtech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Bill Moran wrote: > Subject says most of it. > > I looked, but the CVS website doesn't seem to have a question@ > type mailing list. > > I can't figure out branching to save my life. Heh, that's generally everyone's feeling when they first see it. I generally recommend the "open" CVS book (as opposed to Cederqvist): http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/ it's available online in HTML and has such useful stuff as "a day in the life of..." and command-line reipies to do general bits and pieces. The diagrams are ascii art but effective. jan PS. You'll probably find that a whiteboard map plus deciding how you're going to set up your branches for a particular project vital. Doing "ad hoc" branches is ok once you get the hang of things but frankly having a consistent naming strategy at the outset is a lifesaver. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Goedel would be proud - I'm both inconsistent _and_ incomplete. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message