Re: [HACKERS] Developer setup, what works?

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu (Thomas G(dot) Lockhart)
Cc: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org, dg(at)illustra(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Developer setup, what works?
Date: 1998-04-06 14:03:28
Message-ID: 199804061403.KAA22626@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > > I am embarrassed to keep asking about this, I really do know about
> > > databases, but I have never used CVS and cvsup so all help is
> > > appreciated.
> > That's okay...I'm embarressed that I don't remember how to do
> > this, after doing it so many times lately :(
>
> Oh yeah? Well _I'm_ embarrassed that I couldn't figure out how CVSup and
> cvs could be used together on my machine! This was a useful discussion
> David; keep up with the stupid questions.
>
> David/someone, would you want to take a crack at consolidating this
> discussion into either SGML/docbook source or into plain text that I can
> mark up? This should go into the developer's guide...

OK, now I am confused. Why would you use cvs on your local machine? I
just use cvsup to download the most recent code, and log into
postgresql.org to use cvs to update my changes. After the 'cvs update',
I run cvsup again to re-sync my local source with the current tree.

What am I missing?

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