Re: The merits of CVS for package development
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On Thursday 09 August 2001 04:42 am, Joey Hess wrote:
> See cvs-buildpackage. I keep all my packages in cvs, and I'm not alone.
> Most of them are kept on my personal cvs server, and only I have commits
> to (most of) those. Some are kept on cvs.debian.org and all developers
> have commits to those.
>
I do all my other coding in cvs, but I hadn't used version control for
developing debian packages. I'd installed cvs-buildpackage but I never had
the time to try it; it's time I should take a look at it.
> I keep the entire source trees in cvs though. Disk space is cheap and
> it's much more convenient.
You're right. It's reasonable to keep all source code for a package in CVS.
After all, cvs has excellent facilities for tracking third party sources.
Regards,
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Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
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