Grabbing XFree86.org's xc/ tree using cvsup

[Alexander Gottwald]

Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Another thing to keep in mind is how we want to do development.  It has
> been suggested that we keep the HEAD branch in sync with XFree86.org and
> that we do our development on another branch.  The question here is
> whether cvsup can preserve a local branch of the code and still be used
> to sync with XFree86.org.  I doubt that this is the case, since cvsup is
> essentially mirroring the files, not branches/tags/etc.  Does this mean
> that we must manually track XFree86.org and apply their patches after
> the initial import?

My suggestion is to import the current "stable" release into our CVS. With
CVS we can later import the next release and merge all patches we have
already commited. Fixing severe bugs is still an issue and might be solved
by regulary importing the snapshots of the "stable" branch and by monitoring
the XFree-commit list (I still read every posting on this list and would
just pay more attention to security fixes)

I doubt that a complete mirror of the XFree86 CVS is a good solution since
there is no way (at least I konw of none) to automaticly track changes in
the XFree86 repository and commit them to ours too. So importing the whole
repository is in my opinion a waste of space since we'd have to import all
old revisions from the XFree repository too.

bye
    ago
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