On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 07:58:27PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > >> Or you can just save your version and copy it back into config every time >> you update xastir (bleah). Or you can do your modification in your Xastir >> source directory so that when you CVS update your changes are preserved >> (and merged together with any other changes we do). But you're SOL there >> if you just use tarballs instead of CVS (but why would you do that?). > > I use CVS, but am still new enough at it to not have figured out how to > block an update of an individual file or files. But I do learn fairly > quickly.
You don't have to block the update. If you make a local customization, CVS will preserve that change and not clobber it. If someone edits the same part of the same file, it'll report a "conflict" that you have to resolve by hand --- it'll stuff both your version and the other person's in the file with a delimiter sorta like this: >>>>>>>>some indication of version number Your modified lines ======== Their modified lines <<<<<<<<some other indication But if nobody changes anything that conflicts with your changes, it just leaves your changes alone. >> polygon files > I'll go get those They should have been in the zip files in the TIGER_2006_SE directory already. If you got the TIGER2006 files instead, toss 'em and get the TIGER_2006_SE instead. They'll unpack into a pair of parallel directories: CT/ CT/Polylines CT/Polygons Then you just select the whole CT directory in the map chooser and you'll get both. The TIGER2006 directory was done by someone who only generated the polylines, but the TIGER_2006_SE directory was done with more recent data and using a script for generating both that I shared with Jason Winningham, who churned through all 50 states and territories of data. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
