From: Scott RoLanD <shr@home.chat.net>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Zsh and CVS
Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 16:47:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980504164732.A16145@home.chat.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <980418112151.ZM4129@candle.brasslantern.com>; from Bart Schaefer on Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 11:21:51AM -0700
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 11:21:51AM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Apr 18, 9:53am, TGAPE! wrote:
> } Subject: Re: Perl and ZSH
> }
> } >On 17 Apr 1998, Karsten Thygesen wrote:
> } >
> } >btw is there a cvs repository for zsh?
> }
> } Not that I know of[1]; what's wrong with RCS? You have it on your
> } system if you have CVS. Since CVS uses RCS to do its work, it should be
> } trivial to convert.
> }
> } [1] Though Bart Schaefer might know better.
>
> I don't know of any cvs repository for zsh either (well, except my own,
> which is only 3.0.x and littered with local experiments and selectively-
> applied patches from zsh-workers).
>
> You can make RCS'd sources accessible through CVS just by dropping the ,v
> files into a directory tree under a new or existing CVS repository root;
> but manipulating any RCS branch revisions probably won't work becaus CVS
> uses a very particular branch numbering scheme. To do it "right" you'd
> have to check out each RCS revision and then import it into CVS, to make
> a CVS revision history that matches the original RCS one.
>
> You'd be better off to simply select a stable starting point, import that,
> and begin to use CVS exclusively from there.
>
As an aside I would encourage everyone to look into using Perforce
(www.perforce.com) for work on free projects (and commercial too; but
it is free for free projects). I find it much more usable the CVS.
RoLanD
--
Just a happy user.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-05-04 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-04-17 19:56 backing up with zsh Sven Guckes
1998-04-17 20:20 ` Rob Windsor
1998-04-18 9:36 ` TGAPE!
1998-04-18 18:08 ` Bart Schaefer
[not found] ` <vkzphkchu4.fsf@cdc.noaa.gov>
1998-04-17 20:42 ` Sven Guckes
[not found] ` <vkyax4cgur.fsf@cdc.noaa.gov>
1998-04-17 21:00 ` Sven Guckes
1998-04-18 0:44 ` Perl and ZSH (WAS: Re: backing up with zsh) tep
1998-04-17 21:24 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-04-18 10:53 ` Perl and ZSH Jonas Bofjall
1998-04-18 9:53 ` TGAPE!
1998-04-18 18:21 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-05-04 23:47 ` Scott RoLanD [this message]
1998-04-18 10:13 ` backing up with zsh Mirar
1998-04-20 8:47 ` Andrew Main
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