Re: [HACKERS] Developer setup, what works?

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu (Thomas G. Lockhart)
Cc: scrappy@hub.org, dg@illustra.com, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-04-06T14:03:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 
> > > I am embarrassed to keep asking about this, I really do know about 
> > > databases, but I have never used CVS and cvsup so all help is 
> > > appreciated.
> > That's okay...I'm embarressed that I don't remember how to do
> > this, after doing it so many times lately :(
> 
> Oh yeah? Well _I'm_ embarrassed that I couldn't figure out how CVSup and
> cvs could be used together on my machine! This was a useful discussion
> David; keep up with the stupid questions.
> 
> David/someone, would you want to take a crack at consolidating this
> discussion into either SGML/docbook source or into plain text that I can
> mark up? This should go into the developer's guide...

OK, now I am confused.  Why would you use cvs on your local machine?  I
just use cvsup to download the most recent code, and log into
postgresql.org to use cvs to update my changes.  After the 'cvs update',
I run cvsup again to re-sync my local source with the current tree.

What am I missing?

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