On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 09:05:01PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > You are much better off to keep /usr/src/rootstuff/.git (and > working tree files are /usr/src/rootstuff/etc/hosts and > friends), have a build procedure (read: Makefile) there, and > version control that source directory. I usually have 'install' > and 'diff' target in that Makefile, so that I can do this: A while back I wrote CVSMan, which tries to be berkeley sup(8) with CVS as the transport. I think git would work well here, but I haven't yet generalized the code to support non-CVS SCMs (I certainly have wanted to, it's the only thing I use CVS for anymore). Like GIT, CVS doesn't do perms well. However, CVSMan handles the perms via .cvsperms files. Joel -- "What does it say about a society's priorities when the time you spend in meetings on Monday is greater than the total number of hours you spent sleeping over the weekend?" - Nat Friedman Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Jan 20 03:55:40 2006
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