Re: updating a package with upstream cvs snapshot
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 10:16:38PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 15:45, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > Unless the bugfix is *very* large and invasive, you're best off
> > cherry-picking the changes out of CVS (annoying with CVS, as it doesn't
> > easily show you a changeset across several files)
>
> there are a number of tools around that can help with this. (google for
> changeset & cvs :}). cscvs which I am a upstream maintainer of is one
> such program.
If I had to work in with CVSophiles, I'd probably be very grateful. I've
been successful with my tla advocacy so far, though. <grin>
It seems like it'd be a fair bit more work to get cscvs working than
hand-applying a single cherry out of a CVS repo, though.
- Matt
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