New VCS Choice; SCM SIG

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 14:07 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 10:20 +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 02:50:15PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > > == Workflow for the VCS ==
> > >  * jcollie has started a page that abstracts our current workflow with
> > > cvs-dist:
> > >   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/VersionControl/Operations
> > 
> >  This is very minimalist list of operations, I also use:
> > 
> >  * diff between branches
> Can you give an example commandline of this?  I'm not quite sure what it
> means in the context of the package SCM.

cvs diff -Nau -r branch_1 -r branch_2 foo.c

git diff branch_1..branch_2

(sorry I don't know hg)

> >   * test new patches in private topic branch(s)
> >   * merge branches
> Added these two although my impression is that it wouldn't be very easy
> to do this with cvs.  Are you doing this with our current SCM or is it
> something you want to make sure is made easy when we change to a new
> SCM?

cvs co -r branch_1 foo.c; cvs up -dP -j branch_2 foo.c; cvs commit

git checkout branch_1; git pull . branch_2

josh