getting my stuff back into CVS

Thu Dec 13 15:21:00 GMT 2001

>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Megacz <gcj@lists.megacz.com> writes:

Adam> So it's time to think about the most efficient way of doing
Adam> this. Right now my cvs checkout is a horrid mess, so I can't
Adam> really submit my patches as I go... let me propose an alternate
Adam> procedure:
This approach sounds fine from my end. Will it be too difficult from
your end?
Adam> Again, these will be produced by manually re-making the
Adam> changes in a fresh CVS checkout, so that the impressive
Adam> amount of cruft I have accumulated so far won't wind up in
Adam> the repository.
Lately I've started trying to work on patches independently. When I
want to switch patches, I use a few scripts to save the current one,
back it out, and then apply the one I want to work on again. It's a
pain, but it works ok for me. Another thing that sometimes works ok
is to edit the patch itself, removing hunks and entire diffs which
aren't relevant.
Adam> Hopefully these patches won't require the same degree of
Adam> scrutiny as (2), since most of this stuff wasn't really
Adam> working when I found it.
I agree.
Tom