Re: CVS ??!!??

[Matthew Browne]

At 9:03 AM +1200 26/3/2001, Keith Hopper wrote:
> Greetings,
>      In answer to Nobbi's amazement about my not using make - if someone
> else has written it and nothing goes wrong than I am OK - otherwise I just
> do fixes by hand - so much quicker than baffling oneself about some of the
> most obscure sequences of characters that I have ever seen!
>
>      I have no objection to a CVS approach - provided someone can point me
> to a BOOK which might help me understand it.  I already see terms like data
> base and diff in the messages.  The only thing I can ever do when someone
> send me a diff file is to eyeball it with the two offending files to work
> out what changes have to be made -and- far more important, WHY they have to
> be made - and make them - much faster than using a bit of software you
> don't trust and hoping like 'h**' that the other person knew what was going
> on and had done the correct thing in the light of the design philosophy.

Just a small note about having a CVS server. I don't know where the
main server would be located but you may have some trouble setting
one up at Waikato as ITS has a firewall on the required ports. A few
people have tried to change that policy on occasions but without much
luck.

Also, I'm afraid I don't know of a book relating to CVS but you may
find some of the BSD documentation useful as they use CVS for their
kernel development.

Matthew Browne