[Gnu-arch-users] Re: cvs interoperation question

[Miles Bader]

Jani Monoses <address@hidden> writes:
> it says that one should unprecious CVS files so they are archived too.
> What benefit does that have if commits/updates to/from CVS only happen
> from one working dir? The same doc further on says one should commit
> from a single place to avoid complications.

It's not that CVS commits should only happen from one location, it's
that CVS _synchronization_ (propagating commits from one side to the
other) should only happen at one location.

I don't like the wiki page's recommendation that CVS dirs should be in
the arch archive -- that's only useful if there are many people that
want to do _both_ arch and CVS developement, and I think usually that's
not the case, people want to use one or the other.

In general I think that wiki page is a bit old and crufty; really you
should just use `tla-cvs-sync' for everything.... :-)

[Some of the bits about setting up the tree initially are still useful
though.]

> Having project--cvs--1.0 the main branch with only one tree checked out
> and which is a mixed CVS/arch working directory. This is where cvs up is
> done periodically and also form where I commit.

Yes, that's the general idea.

> From time to time changes are merged into the main tree from other trees
> and committed to CVS so arch main and the CVS repo are always just one
> update or commit from eachother.

Yeah.

Just use tla-cvs-sync, then you can synchronize often.  With the emacs
tree -- which changes very frequently -- I do it every time I happen to
login to the sync host, which is usually several times a day; I'd do
automatically from a cron script except that I'm not sure how to enter
my GPG pass-phrase then, and I'm not sure I want to keep around a
pass-phraseless key on that host...

-Miles
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