Re: [HACKERS] cvsup

Joe Conway wrote:

> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> In postgres.cvsup:
>>
>> # complete distribution, including all below
>> pgsql
>> earthdistance
>>
>
> I've been using this in postgres.cvsup
>
>   # complete distribution, including all below
>   repository
>
> I think Marc told me to use that at one point.
>
>

Here's a small doc patch so this info is not hidden - getting this
working was mildly annoying until I found out about using refuse files.
Now it's working like a champ.

cheers

andrew
Index: doc/src/sgml/cvs.sgml
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RCS file: /home/cvsmirror/pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml/cvs.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.27
diff -c -w -r1.27 cvs.sgml
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--- doc/src/sgml/cvs.sgml    26 Sep 2004 18:55:50 -0000
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     </para>

     <para>
+     If you specify <option>repository</> instead of <option>pgsql</>
+     in the above setup, you will
+     get a complete copy of the entire repository at cvsup.postgresql.org,
+     including its CVSROOT directory. If you do that, you will probably want
+     to exclude those files in that directory that you want to modify locally,
+     using a refuse file. For example, for the above setup you might put this
+     in <filename>/home/cvs/sup/repository/refuse</>:
+ <programlisting>
+ CVSROOT/config*
+ CVSROOT/commitinfo*
+ CVSROOT/loginfo*
+ </programlisting>
+     See the <productname>CVSup</> manual pages for how to use refuse files.
+    </para>
+    <para>
      The following is a suggested <productname>CVSup</productname> config file from
      <ulink url="ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/CVSup/README.cvsup">the <productname>PostgreSQL</> ftp site</ulink>
      which will fetch the current snapshot only: