Discourage cvs-import

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Fri Feb 23 05:49:59 UTC 2007


On 22.02.2007 22:05, Warren Togami wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> John Dennis schrieb:
>>>> Please at least don't break cvs-import.sh for non-initial commits.  It's
>>>> _way_ more pleasant to use when updating tarballs than make upload or
>>>> make new-source.
>>> +1
>>> cvs-import is the most sane way to update an rpm when we are upstream.
>>> There are quite a few rpm's for which we are the upstream and importing
>>> into 'dist cvs' is just the final step after preparing a new release. I
>>> really don't want some tool forcing me to review the changes I just made
>>> to make sure I approve of my own work.
>> It seems it wasn't clear in my mail: cvs-import.sh would still be there,
>> just not documented in the wiki. So those that know about it can just
>> continue to use it.
> Not documented in the Wiki even for initial imports?

Well, that would be counter-productive. ;-) So no, it should be 
documented; probably something like this "use cvs-import.sh for the 
initial import like this [...]; Updating the package later work like 
this [...] cvs update[...] cvs diff [...]cvs commit [...]"

CU
thl




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