Re: problems managing package with CVS
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 08:18:41PM -0500, Chris Ruffin wrote:
> I have my package in a local CVS repository. Lately, a new upstream
> version of the software arrived, and I imported it with a vendor tag
> and merged the changes from the previous version into the tree using
> the method recommended on the debian.org website:
>
> cvs checkout -jsource-dist:yesterday -jsource-dist <package>
I don't understand why it suggests that you do this. It is much more accurate
to instead use:
cvs checkout -jupstream_version_old -jupstream_version_new <package>
(or the corresponding update command)
That is what I always do.
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- mdz
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