Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: ego and the contest, was: SourceForge.net Service Update: CVS

[Zack Brown]

This would make a great addition to the tutorial.

Be well,
Zack

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:08:22AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Tupshin Harper <address@hidden> writes:
> > >I'm happily using tla to manage my emacs hacking, and so far I've had
> > >little problem remaining in sync with CVS (with changes flowing in both
> > >directions).  It's quite nice actually.
> >
> > Is there a HOWTO on this...any general pointers?
> 
> I'm not aware any HOWTO, but it's generally pretty simple -- setup a
> source tree to act as the `gateway' sources, and make sure it's both a
> CVS working dir (has CVS dirs) and an arch project tree (has {arch} dir).
> 
> To sync:
> 
>   (1) Do `cvs update'
> 
>   (2) For each pending arch changeset:
>         A. replay the changeset into the the current source tree.
>         B. Fix up any conflicts.  Of particular note is ChangeLog
>            conflicts, which happen quite often, but are usually easy to
>            handle automatically.
>         C. Do any cvs adds/rms necessary.
>         D. Make a log file to use for cvs checkin (probably based on
>            the changeset's log text).
>         E. cvs commit the files changed by the arch changeset
> 
>   (3) Finally, commit the previously checked out CVS changes (which have
>       been sitting in the project tree since step 1) as a new arch
>       changeset.  I make no attempt at identifying `changesets' from CVS
>       because it just doesn't work with the emacs tree (maybe it would
>       with other projects that use more disciplined CVS checkins).
> 
> [Insert conflict and consistency checks liberally.]
> 
> I use a shell script to do all of the above; see `tla-cvs-sync' in
> address@hidden/tla-tools *
> 
> -Miles
> 
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Zack Brown