On 7/20/07, NISA BALAKRISHNAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1.what are the various tools commonly used in free software or open source > projects to track different versions?
mainly CVS and SubVersion....the later is more recent, the former, despite still being used, is coming into a deprecated state in a future which i cannot tell whether it is near or far...google for those and you will find a lot of info... > 2.what is a patch? how does it work?what is its complimentary tool? a patch is a file which contains the difference between two source-code files (or groups of files)....it reads the two files and produces a special formatted file which contains the difference in the source code of those two files (or two groups of files)....this difference file can be distributed over the internet and can be used to produce copies of the modified source code without having to re-distribute the entire source tree... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > -- Daniel "Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do." (Donald Knuth) "Yes, technogeeks can be funny, even if only to each other." (http://www.boogieonline.com/revolution/science/humor/)" "Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software." (Yukihiro Matsumoto, a.k.a. ``Matz'') ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
