[M3devel] next problem (NT386GNU)

[Jay]

Olaf, yes and no.
 
How do I then bring the files into mainline?
Which Tinderbox is testing them?
  This is impossible question probably, because Tinderbox for private changes probably doesn't scale well. But it would be nice. And other than private branches, submitting diffs would be nice. Or, as well, these can be crutches for bad changes, and people can abuse the Tinderbox. It's tough though, because a multi machine Tinderbox can always easily do much more diligence than one developer and his local machines. (What's the Win32 Tinderbox story, I wonder? I guess first I can see if Mozilla has one, and if not, it probably doesn't exist, if so, it does :) )
 
I don't mind the command line, but I'm a bit slow learning new tools. I find new source control systems daunting.
I'm quite expert with Perforce though including branching, integrating, resolving, etc..
You don't have to be in Cygwin (sh) to use cvs, but it's true, one very annoying thing about all these forward-slash-requiring tools is I lose the usefulness of command line completion in cmd. Cmd is quite good at editing command lines, keeping output and command line history (set the scrollback to 9999), copy/paste, and is very fast, nothing else that I have tried competes. Most are even merely slower on their video output except maybe the actual text ones. The F8 feature, command line completion against history, which I can't explain well, is really great. MSys comes up with awful colors that I couldn't figure out how to change. Cygwin makes all your paths be /cygdrive/c/... which is just ugly and long. MSys/MinGWin are much nicer with merely /c...
 
I installed TortoiseCVS but it didn't work..I need to look into how to get it to use ssh.
But as well, if my work doesn't suck too much, it should be fine for mainline.
 
Look at diffs is really also slow.
I've done best by always saving away an .orig file and then windiff.
Otherwise 1) is very slow 2) textual diffs...I use the command line all the time, but for viewing diffs...it's really insufficient.
 
 - Jay



> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:10:49 +0100> From: wagner at elegosoft.com> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com> Subject: Re: [M3devel] next problem (NT386GNU)> > Quoting Jay <jayk123 at hotmail.com>:> > > I don't want to deal with learning about CVS branches, please.> > I don't understand the problems some people seem to have with CVS.> Creating a branch is really simple:> > o create a branch tag, for example:> > cvs tag -b devel_nt386gnu_gcc_opt files(s)> > o update to that branch:> > cvs up -r devel_nt386gnu_gcc_opt files(s)> > That's it. The tag is now `sticky' on the files, i.e. remembered> in the CVS/Entries files in your workspace. From now on you're> using the branch for the mentioned files. To restore them to the> latest main trunk version, use> > cvs up -A files(s)> > And Jay, as a Windows user you probably don't like to use the cvs> commandline in Cygwin; just install CVS-NT and tortoise (Randy did,> too). It may be more convenient for you.> > Olaf> -- > Olaf Wagner -- elego Software Solutions GmbH> Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25 / Gebäude 12, 13355 Berlin, Germany> phone: +49 30 23 45 86 96 mobile: +49 177 2345 869 fax: +49 30 23 45 86 95> http://www.elegosoft.com | Geschäftsführer: Olaf Wagner | Sitz: Berlin> Handelregister: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 77719 | USt-IdNr: DE163214194> 
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