Re: [HACKERS] CVSup

On Fri, 1 May 1998, Maurice Gittens wrote:

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
> To: Maurice Gittens <mgittens@gits.nl>
> Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org <hackers@postgreSQL.org>
> Date: vrijdag 1 mei 1998 19:34
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] CVSup
>
>
> >
> > If you remove the 'tag=.' part of the CVSup config file, you can
> >pull down the complete CVS repository to your machine to manipulate as you
> >want to...
> >
>
> What way would suggest to keep in sync with the changes other folks are
> making? I mean, if I have the repository on my local system I still have to
> get changes changes merged in from the "main" postgresql repository.
> When I think about it all solutions seem more clumsy (and less flexible)
> than simply using the standard remote access to the repository.
>
> Could you enlighten me?

    If you pull down the repository using CVSup into
/usr/local/cvsroot, for example, and set your CVSROOT environment variable
to point to that, you access the same thing that everyone with commit
privileges has access to, except you don't have commit privileges...

    In one sense, this is better...you don't have to deal with the lag
of connecting to the remove CVS server every time you want to look at a
log or a diff...the only time you have to "re-sync" with the remote server
is when you want to pull down any recent changes, which, if you follow the
committers mailing list, you do when you notice a rash of changes...

    A dialup PPP user is better served by pulling own theh  whole CVS
repositiry and then being able to disconnect/work then using CVS directly
where you need to be connected to do anything...