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RE: Managing eCos modifications
- From: "Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco at ix dot netcom dot com>
- To: "eCos Discuss" <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 00:07:04 -0800
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] Managing eCos modifications
> From: Andrew Dyer [mailto:amdyer@gmail.com]
>
> What I did (when I was keeping up with ecos diligently) is check out
> copies of the ecos tree to a local directory, then check them in to
> our local CVS server as a 'vendor branch' with a tag specifying the
> checkout date. our local CVS would then keep track of our local
> changes and help with merging.
>
>
http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html#Tracking%20Third-Party%20Sources%20
(Vendor%20Branches)
>
> explains it.
Thanks. Looks like I need to learn a lot more about CVS. Since I'm only
using it as a way to get eCos, not maintain my own personal source files, I
had hoped I wouldn't have to, but I suppose it's a useful thing to know
anyway.
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Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco
Paul mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com
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