Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:28:03 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: neswold@FNAL.GOV Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Accomodating Terry Message-ID: <199704211828.LAA13942@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970421093355.3031B-100000@aduxb.fnal.gov> from "Richard Neswold" at Apr 21, 97 09:54:54 am
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> > I'm worried about getting all of this baseline code in and then finding > > out 3 months down the road that one of the baseline module changes I > > made was the wrong one, but having no way to back it out or find out > > what the previous code should have looked like without rewriting from > > scratch. > > Just check out the correct "tip" from the cvs repository to overwrite your > modifications. But you aren't checking in the modification history for the independetly developed code. That's the whole point: you *can't* 'just check out the correct "tip"' because you never checked the sucker in in the first place... 8-(. > > Also, if you are trying to follow a set of changes, having them appear > > full-blown in the source tree won't really help your understanding. > > Observe which modules were changed (the output of 'cvs update') and > correspond with the developer. I thought we were trying to integrate changes so that they would not have to be seperately maintained, not to establish a channel whereby they could be seperately maintained. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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