In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Nate Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Any chance of getting CVSup to transfer from a remote repository
> > to a local vendor branch, instead of from a remote repository to
> > a local repository?
>
> The problem is that you aren't just transferring bits from the HEAD, but
> from multiple active branches. As John already stated, CVS doesn't
> handle multiple 'vendor' branches well (and in this case, the FreeBSD
> tree has vendor (CSRG) branches, FreeBSD vendor branches (RELENG_2,
> RELENG_3, ..., contrib vendor branches (TCSH, GCC, etc..)
>
> CVS is simply not setup to do what you ask. :(
No, Terry's idea is sound as long as you only try to track one branch
of FreeBSD. I.e., you consider FreeBSD to be your vendor, and you do
a checkout-mode type of fetch from a branch of the FreeBSD repository
and directly import it onto your own vendor branch. This would meet
the needs of a lot of people, e.g., companies who make products based
on FreeBSD.
I have had this on my to-do list for a long time, but I have no idea
if or when it'll ever get implemented. It would require a focused
period of working on it that I just don't have these days. Maybe if
the economy gets worse ...
John
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