[lug] CVS question

[Nate Duehr]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 12:25:51PM -0700, Michael Wegener wrote:
> Does this book ("Open Source Development with CVS") cover the use and
> configuration of GUI front-ends, like WinCVS and LinCVS? I had to give up on
> using CVS because I couldn't set it up as a server for these apps, and the CVS
> list wouldn't answer my questions on it (nor anyone else's w/ the same question).
> It was my first experience of an Open Source group being totally unresponsive to
> a well-formed question.
> 
> Also, do you know of any front ends that handle the new/removed quandary of CVS
> where you must explicitly add or remove each separate file? It becomes a real,
> unmanageable pain in a rapid prototype development environment where classes can
> be pretty transient...

I don't see any information about either GUI in the book.  Sorry.  I
played with LinCVS for a little while and found that it tried to do too
many things for me, and was especially confusing during the learning
curve of just learning how to properly operate CVS.  LinCVS kept doing
things to the tree that I didn't like.

Removing files (and directories) can be a pain.  Haven't found and
scripts to help automate that yet, but I'm sure they could be written in
a quickie shell script with checks to see if something is gone and then
remove it from CVS.

-- 
Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>

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