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Re: updating a package with upstream cvs snapshot



On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 22:35, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> 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.

Depends on the size of the cherry really :}.

cvs co foo
cd foo
cscvs cache -b
cscvs log

:}

Rob
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