Thread: On patching without write access to CVS

Folks,

Thanks to Andrew Dunstan for pointing me toward cvsutils.  As not
everybody knows about them, here's a small patch which lets people
know at least in theory where they are.

Cheers,
D
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Am Montag, 14. Mai 2007 03:56 schrieb David Fetter:
> +    For those things which <productname>CVS</productname> does not do
> +    by itself, such as letting you create patches without write access,

I don't think that is accurate.

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On May 14, 12:57 am, pete...@gmx.net (Peter Eisentraut) wrote:
> Am Montag, 14. Mai 2007 03:56 schrieb David Fetter:
>
> > +    For those things which <productname>CVS</productname> does not do
> > +    by itself, such as letting you create patches without write access,

s/such as letting you create patches/specifically creating patches
which either create or delete files/

?

>
> I don't think that is accurate.
>
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Updated patch with suggested wording applied, attached.  I did not
modify FAQ_DEV.html because this doesn't seem to be an FAQ-level issue.

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Andrew Hammond wrote:
> On May 14, 12:57 am, pete...@gmx.net (Peter Eisentraut) wrote:
> > Am Montag, 14. Mai 2007 03:56 schrieb David Fetter:
> >
> > > +    For those things which <productname>CVS</productname> does not do
> > > +    by itself, such as letting you create patches without write access,
>
> s/such as letting you create patches/specifically creating patches
> which either create or delete files/
>
> ?
>
> >
> > I don't think that is accurate.
> >
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Index: doc/src/sgml/cvs.sgml
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--- doc/src/sgml/cvs.sgml    30 May 2007 17:35:54 -0000
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*** 15,20 ****
--- 15,24 ----
      <firstname>Thomas</firstname>
      <surname>Lockhart</surname>
     </author>
+    <author>
+     <firstname>David</firstname>
+     <surname>Fetter</surname>
+    </author>
    </authorgroup>
    <date>1999-05-20</date>
   </appendixinfo>
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*** 150,155 ****
--- 154,166 ----
     comes with <productname>CVS</productname>, or see the online
     documentation at <ulink url="http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/"></ulink>.
    </para>
+   <para>
+    For those things which <productname>CVS</productname> does not do by
+    itself, for example ones that add or remove files, you can use
+    <productname>cvsutils</productname>, which is packaged for many
+    operating systems, or available in source form at <ulink
+    url="http://www.red-bean.com/cvsutils/"></ulink>.
+   </para>
   </sect1>

   <sect1 id="cvs-tree">