Thread: "Working with CVS" documentation

"Working with CVS" documentation

From
Greg Smith
Date:
I've now finished up initial content generation on the wiki page that 
covers using the CVS repository:

http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/Working_with_CVS

That includes all the helpful comments suggested on this list in last 
month's threads on this topic along with a full dump of what was in my 
brain.  The most complete section expands Heikki's workflow into a fleshed 
out example I think is good enough for new potential developers to use.

I've also put some notes on the Discussion page of this article that lead 
to links on recent general trends in this area.  Anyone who isn't familiar 
with distributed version control systems like Git or Mercurial should find 
those references one way to get up to speed on what's going on there. 
With high-profile projects like Apache recently committing to DVCS work 
these tools are really becoming mainstream.

Some of that reading is both informative and periodically hilarious; my 
favorite quote is from Linus Torvalds, who says "if you actually like 
using CVS, you shouldn't be here. You should be in some mental 
institution".

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD


Re: "Working with CVS" documentation

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
I have added the CVS Wiki URL to our CVS docs section.

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Greg Smith wrote:
> I've now finished up initial content generation on the wiki page that 
> covers using the CVS repository:
> 
> http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/Working_with_CVS
> 
> That includes all the helpful comments suggested on this list in last 
> month's threads on this topic along with a full dump of what was in my 
> brain.  The most complete section expands Heikki's workflow into a fleshed 
> out example I think is good enough for new potential developers to use.
> 
> I've also put some notes on the Discussion page of this article that lead 
> to links on recent general trends in this area.  Anyone who isn't familiar 
> with distributed version control systems like Git or Mercurial should find 
> those references one way to get up to speed on what's going on there. 
> With high-profile projects like Apache recently committing to DVCS work 
> these tools are really becoming mainstream.
> 
> Some of that reading is both informative and periodically hilarious; my 
> favorite quote is from Linus Torvalds, who says "if you actually like 
> using CVS, you shouldn't be here. You should be in some mental 
> institution".
> 
> --
> * Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
> 
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