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Re: cvsu
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Alexandre Oliva |
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Re: cvsu |
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04 Jul 2001 05:41:06 -0300 |
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On Jul 1, 2001, Tom Tromey <address@hidden> wrote:
> Alexandre, I notice your cvs-utils package has a `cvsu' script.
> Could we rename this?
Well, I'm quite fond on this name, and it will take me a while to get
used to some new name, but I really can't oppose this request.
Besides, I'm probably going to start using some new script to not only
update a CVS tree, but also create a backup tree elsewhere sufficient
to re-create the exact CVS tree (except for timestamps). This is
going to save me a lot of disk space in backups. It'll probably be
called cvsbk. I don't think it'll duplicate cvsu, though. I don't
think a backup should update anything... :-)
I've been trying to avoid cvsup, because there's that CVS mirroring
project similarly-named, but I find cvsupdate too long, and cvsupd a
bit odd. Suggestions?
> (I wrote the original cvsu before either of these packages existed
> as packages).
What did your cvsu did differently from mine?
> `cvsu --help' fails miserably.
Indeed. I'll take that into account when I rename it (unless you beat
me to it :-)
> (So do several of the programs when I use --help)
Yep. This should be made consistent. This is one of the reasons why
it hasn't been released yet :-(
> BTW is using portable sh a strong requirement?
Well, I kind of like programming in shell, and I prefer to use
portable constructs, but it's not really a strong requirement. I'd
rather avoid using Perl, for example; I might accept Python, but I've
been reluctant to take the first step away from familiar grounds :-)
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- cvsu, Tom Tromey, 2001/07/01
- Re: cvsu,
Alexandre Oliva <=