questions on development(7)
Ian FREISLICH
ianf at clue.co.za
Fri Nov 9 06:20:21 PST 2007
"Aryeh M. Friedman" wrote:
> First of all I am posting to both -current and -hackers because
> -hackers seems to be very low volume.
>
> I just set up a master server development server using the procedure
> in development(7) which was fairly clear but left a few questions
> unanswered (and one odd behavior). I have only the master server (no
> clients). Just for ref my dir tree looks like this:
>
> /home/ncvs ---> /FreeBSD/CVSROOT
> /FreeBSD/7.x (src)
> /FreeBSD/current (src ports doc)
> /usr/src ---> /FreeBSD/7.x
> /usr/src2 ---> /FreeBSD/current
> /usr/ports ---> /FreeBSD/current/ports
> /usr/obj is on it's own partition
>
> My questions:
>
> 1. If I am modifing code and such should I have a local branch?
> 2. If yes to #1 how do I setup keeping everything except my modified
> code in sync (and if possible to retro activally apply patchs from the
> local branch unto the main source tree [/usr/src2])
You won't be able to commit to the BSD repo from your server. I
think you should treat your repo as read only and use cvsup to keep
it up to date. At least that's what I do.
> 3. The documentation said very little about how to generate patchs
> between my local code and the main branch
> a. Ideally I want to set it up where when I am done with a
> modification it automatically creates a patch (I have never used CVS
> for anything except through csup and cvsup so I am totally lost here)
'cvs diff' will generate a patch for the specified files or
directories. Some like context diffs, I like unified with minimal
context '-ud' option to diff. Use whichever you find easier to
read. Submit patches in whatever format the developers prefer.
Unified seems the most common format around here.
Ian
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Ian Freislich
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