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Date:      Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:18:53 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Andreas Kohn <andreas.kohn@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
Subject:   Re: ufsstat - testers / feedback wanted!
Message-ID:  <20051013211853.GA16688@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1129238090.1002.33.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de>
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 11:14:50PM +0200, Andreas Kohn wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 11:14 -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:18:54AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> > > Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> > > >On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:27:50AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>Thanks - great suggestion!  I'll do that.  Any ideas how to remove =
the=20
> > > >>FBSDID line jitter from the patches?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >When you check out the files from CVS, do not expand the CVS keyword=
s by
> > > >doing: cvs co -kk
> > >=20
> > > So, this brings up a quick question:  what methods do most developers=
=20
> > > use when doing things like this?  I looked in the developer's handboo=
k,=20
> > > but didn't see any quick guide on a good method.  Do you keep the loc=
al=20
> > > cvs repo up to date, then check it out, make changes, etc?  How do yo=
u=20
> > > do the diffs, and track all the changes, while testing too?  I'd like=
 to=20
> > > kind of copy someone else's known-functional method instead of coming=
 up=20
> > > with my own.
> >=20
> > The easiest way with existing tools is to work in a copy checked out
> > from a locally mirrored CVS repository.  You can then use "cvs diff" to
> > generate diffs. =20
>=20
> > If you add new files, you will need to hack the CVS
> > metadate yourself if you want to use "cvs diff -N" to include those
> > files.  That's ugly, but it should work. =20
>=20
> This should not be needed at all. cvs add works as well.=20

Oops, you are correct.  That is in fact not needed.

-- Brooks

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