Re: [HACKERS] Developer setup, what works?

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>, dg@illustra.com, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-04-06T14:27:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > 
> > > > 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?

	The fact that you can login to postgresql.org and update the
source tree so that your work doesn't diverge greatly from that which is
the main source tree? :)