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Re: Diff by branch tag and date? Maybe with PCL-CVS?
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Diff by branch tag and date? Maybe with PCL-CVS? |
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Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:15:07 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:
> I have a working copy with the gnus-5_10-branch (up to date) and two
> quite big patches (KY.patch and SJ.patch) that should be applied to
> the branch. (At a later time, I want to be able to identify those
> changes.) Is the following procedure correct (and reasonable)?
>
> cd /path/to/gnus-5_10-branch
> cvs update
>
> cvs tag "gnus-5_10-pre-KY"
> patch < KY.patch
> cvs commit -m "Merge KY changes"
> cvs tag "gnus-5_10-post-KY"
>
> cvs tag "gnus-5_10-pre-SJ"
> patch < SJ.patch
> cvs commit -m "Merge SJ changes"
> cvs tag "gnus-5_10-post-SJ"
Yes, that is a good stategy. Tags are cheap, and retroactive tagging is
cumbersome and error prone.
Andreas.
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