ufsstat - testers / feedback wanted!
Andreas Kohn
andreas.kohn at gmx.net
Thu Oct 13 14:15:02 PDT 2005
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 11:14 -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:18:54AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> > Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> > >On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:27:50AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> > >
> > >>Thanks - great suggestion! I'll do that. Any ideas how to remove the
> > >>FBSDID line jitter from the patches?
> > >
> > >
> > >When you check out the files from CVS, do not expand the CVS keywords by
> > >doing: cvs co -kk
> >
> > So, this brings up a quick question: what methods do most developers
> > use when doing things like this? I looked in the developer's handbook,
> > but didn't see any quick guide on a good method. Do you keep the local
> > cvs repo up to date, then check it out, make changes, etc? How do you
> > do the diffs, and track all the changes, while testing too? I'd like to
> > kind of copy someone else's known-functional method instead of coming up
> > with my own.
>
> The easiest way with existing tools is to work in a copy checked out
> from a locally mirrored CVS repository. You can then use "cvs diff" to
> generate diffs.
> If you add new files, you will need to hack the CVS
> metadate yourself if you want to use "cvs diff -N" to include those
> files. That's ugly, but it should work.
This should not be needed at all. cvs add works as well.
Regards,
--
Andreas
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