Re: make bootstrap: need moral support. :-(

[Ken Raeburn]

On Feb 20, 2006, at 16:38, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> I, on the other hand, keep a local subversion branch with the Emacs
> sources unchanged, in file:///svnroot/emacs/branches/gnu/.  Any  
> changes
> *I* make are made to file:///svnroot/emacs/trunk/, so when I need a
> clean copy of the source tree, I just remove the checkout of /trunk  
> and
> check it out again.

Works for me too... or "svn revert" works pretty well also.

> How do the people who work with the repository keep up to date their
> sources?  Is there a way to actually _mirror_ the CVS changes, like
> CVSup or similar?

Well, you can rsync from the FSF CVS repository, so you can have a  
local copy updated fairly efficiently.  I do that, but only because  
it makes the "svk sync" process I use to mirror the repository into  
Subversion go much faster. :-)
(To mirror CVS into SVN, you can install the VCP package and its SVN  
interface.  I think cvs2svn might also work for incremental updates,  
but last I looked, the docs seemed to suggest that it was not  
intended for that and it might not work.  Oh, and SVN doesn't like  
one of the filenames in the CVS repository, which has a control  
character in its name; I just tell rsync to leave it out.)

Ken