Re: how to update from the repo of a repo?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Brian Gough wrote:

> "Robert P. J. Day" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >    is there an accepted way of setting up a CVS repo for a number of
> > developers, where the repo itself is updated from yet another repo?
> > (this might be the equivalent of BK's clone of a clone.)
>
> There is no standard way to transfer individual commit log entries etc
> between repositories, the most obvious method is to simply do a import
> onto a vendor branch on a regular basis.  See the chapter on "Tracking
> third-party sources" in the manual for details.

yup, that looks like what i want, but there are a couple things that 
strike me as a bit odd.

first, if i want, as a starting point, the current contents of the 
vendor's CVS tree, it looks like i first have to grab it and remove 
all CVS info from it, effectively to turn it into a regular directory 
structure as if i created it, then turn around and import it to turn 
it *back* into a CVS repo, albeit this time as if i created it.  is 
that right?

and as for the release tag, i guess the easiest thing is just to use a 
representation of the date if the vendor updates their repo fairly 
frequently.

sound right?

rday