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On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 19:01, George Shapovalov wrote: |
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> Well, I also use separate trees (and I know I am not the only one, as |
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> occasionally this kind of "bookkeeping" was coming up on irc, but apparently |
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> we are in minority for the most part :)), but when I process ebuilds or fix |
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> bugs I prefer to work in the "active", synced tree. When I am done with |
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> tinkering I simply copy stuff over into cvs tree and only perform |
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> updates/commits there. |
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> In case I terribly screw something up I don't even have to do any cleanup, as |
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> I have a habit to only touch my local cvs tree when I've finished processing |
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> and testing stuff, just emerge sync and carry over.. |
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> Provides some isolation and a safer feeling if you ask me :). |
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> Oh, and it seems to require less additional actions than what you described ;) |
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> (usually just a single cp command, well, in addition to all the repoman |
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> scan... stuff that we have to do anyway). |
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Personally, this is how I do it. It keeps me from having to worry about |
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things like "did I add this to cvs already?" and other such things. |
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Plus it keeps my "work area" separate from cvs. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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