[ On Friday, September 8, 2000 at 15:57:52 (+0000), Bill Welch wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: remote trunk/local branch?
>
> That's the situation I'm in now and, as you note, it's OK. For one 3rd
> party tree, however, it's really not working. Hence the split repository
> idea.
Yeah, it works OK for one local maintainer, or at least a "logical one"
(i.e. where two or more can carefully avoid stepping on each other's
toes). This is what I've been doing with CVS itself lately.
In the end though the only practial solution to a "split repository"
that works 100% today is to create a local repository and periodically
import from the checked out vendor version into your local repo. This
is what I do with NetBSD and FreeBSD.
If you can CVSup the vendor repository then you have the added ability
to be able to tag the exact "release" that you import into your local
repository (CVSup will allow you to put local tags in the mirrored repo
so long as they don't conflict in name). This is what I did with
FreeBSD.
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