Re: address@hidden: Re: [Savannah-hackers] address@hidden: Re: emacs/src/regex.c]]

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

   From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
   Date: 25 Dec 2003 23:55:13 +0100

   Any way to do this without this presumption?  Would

   cvs -d :ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/gnulib \
           checkout gnulib/regex.{c,h}

   do the trick in the script?

i don't know if cvs expands {c,h} properly but if separated into two
distinct commands i'm sure that would work:

gnulib_cvsroot=':ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/gnulib'
cvs -d $gnulib_cvsroot checkout gnulib/regex.h
cvs -d $gnulib_cvsroot checkout gnulib/regex.c

for some, disk space savings is probably not as important as bandwidth
savings: 5872 KB for all of gnulib vs 212 KB for only regex.[ch].

   And presuming that it does: will an update on the whole Emacs
   directory update those two files via their symlinks, from their
   respective repositories?  Probably not, right?

correct (hence wrapping the "cvs update" operation w/ this script).
the limitation lies w/ cvs, which operates on a directory-oriented
basis, and does not handle multiple CVSROOT in one logical operation,
at least the last time i probed its failure modes in depth (~1999).
the recent change in deployment to use chroot is even more reason to
do things client-side, ugly as it may appear initially.

thi