Re: cvsu

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul  1, 2001, Tom Tromey <address@hidden> wrote:

> Alexandre, I notice your cvs-utils package has a `cvsu' script.
> Could we rename this?

Well, I'm quite fond on this name, and it will take me a while to get
used to some new name, but I really can't oppose this request.
Besides, I'm probably going to start using some new script to not only
update a CVS tree, but also create a backup tree elsewhere sufficient
to re-create the exact CVS tree (except for timestamps).  This is
going to save me a lot of disk space in backups.  It'll probably be
called cvsbk.  I don't think it'll duplicate cvsu, though.  I don't
think a backup should update anything... :-)

I've been trying to avoid cvsup, because there's that CVS mirroring
project similarly-named, but I find cvsupdate too long, and cvsupd a
bit odd.  Suggestions?

> (I wrote the original cvsu before either of these packages existed
> as packages).

What did your cvsu did differently from mine?

> `cvsu --help' fails miserably.

Indeed.  I'll take that into account when I rename it (unless you beat
me to it :-)

> (So do several of the programs when I use --help)

Yep.  This should be made consistent.  This is one of the reasons why
it hasn't been released yet :-(

> BTW is using portable sh a strong requirement?

Well, I kind of like programming in shell, and I prefer to use
portable constructs, but it's not really a strong requirement.  I'd
rather avoid using Perl, for example; I might accept Python, but I've
been reluctant to take the first step away from familiar grounds :-)

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