Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Nov 1998 18:02:51 +0100 (CET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: The history of the Linux OS |
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On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Simon Kenyon wrote: > On 23-Nov-98 Riley Williams wrote: > > I've been looking into setting up a CVS tree that will contain the > > full kernel source history... > > Put them in a CVS archive, and you replace "sum of kernel source > > archive sizes" with "sum of upgrade patch file sizes", and thus > > massively reduce the size of the result... > > I would suspect the result will fit on a ZipDisk, never mind a CD, but > > I'll not know for sure until I get it set up... > > Are there any CVS experts out there? > > now we're getting somewhere > trouble is - as the puzzle unfolds, what do you do about the situation where an > intermediate release turns up > > say we have 1.1.1, 1.1.3, 1.1.4 > put them in cvs and all of a sudden 1.1.2 appears from some kindly soul > can cvs/rcs/sccs (you choose) handle this?
That's why we have tags. After checking in 2.1.129, you say
cvs tag linus-2-1-129
After that you can say
cvs co linus-2-1-129
to check out 2.1.129.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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