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Date:      Wed, 5 Sep 2001 13:20:01 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        tlambert2@mindspring.com
Cc:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, roam@ringlet.net
Subject:   Re: local changes to CVS tree
Message-ID:  <15254.31457.818766.916542@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B967827.F166E3A6@mindspring.com>
References:  <20010905131027.A5476@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> <20010905142800.C633@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <200109051723.f85HNbl07385@vashon.polstra.com> <3B967827.F166E3A6@mindspring.com>

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> > CVS claims to support multiple vendor branches, but in practice it
> > doesn't work in any useful sense.  There's at least one place in the
> > CVS sources where "the" vendor branch is hard-coded as 1.1.1.  You
> > really don't want to use multiple vendor branches -- trust me. :-)
> > Use two repositories instead, or use perforce.
> 
> I guess I'll ask the usual question:
> 
> Any chance of getting CVSup to transfer from a remote repository
> to a local vendor branch, instead of from a remote repository to
> a local repository?

The problem is that you aren't just transferring bits from the HEAD, but
from multiple active branches.  As John already stated, CVS doesn't
handle multiple 'vendor' branches well (and in this case, the FreeBSD
tree has vendor (CSRG) branches, FreeBSD vendor branches (RELENG_2,
RELENG_3, ..., contrib vendor branches (TCSH, GCC, etc..)

CVS is simply not setup to do what you ask. :(


Nate

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