Re: [Savannah-help-public] address@hidden: Re: shell]

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hello,

In your working directory, you can issue:

cvs diff

to get the changes against the version you checked out last year, and

cvs diff -r HEAD

to get the diffs against the latest version of emacs.


To update your repository to the latest version and get a chance to
locally merge your changes with that latest version, use

cvs update


HTH

-- 
Sylvain


On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 05:53:14PM -0400, Devon Sean McCullough wrote:
> I checked it out last year.
> Now I want to update my copy.
> However I don't want it to erase
> my changes which I have yet to send in.
> So I thought, hmm, seems one can say 'diff'
> where previously one said 'co' and it will show
> what changes have been made since I checked it out.
> 
> Perhaps I'm thinking in terms of concepts which to not apply
> in the weird twilight zone of CVS?  I have put CVS for Dummies
> on my reading list.  Meanwhile I see the 'co' command works fine
> so I'll keep two copies of emacs source for lack of a better idea.
> 
>               Peace
>                       --Devon
>        /~\
>        \ /    Health Care
>         X     not warfare
>        / \
> 
>       Dubya won the digital vote
>       Kerry won the popular vote
> 
> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:14:15 +0200
> From: Sylvain <address@hidden>
> To: Devon Sean McCullough <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Savannah-help-public] address@hidden: Re: shell]
> Mail-Followup-To: Devon Sean McCullough <address@hidden>,
>       address@hidden, address@hidden
> In-Reply-To: <address@hidden>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> You found the right instructions page, so I'm relieved that it indeed
> can be found easily.
> 
> Now, your problem more resides in the use of the cvs tool.  We do not
> provide instructions for using CVS itself, because CVS already comes
> with documentation and Savannah makes no non-standard use of CVS.
> 
> I am not sure on what you want to do here. You attempt to use the
> 'diff' command. Have you already done a checkout (command 'co'
> described in the instructions page) of the repository? What do you
> want to diff against? Your commands seems to try to do too many things
> at once.
> 
> Also, the CVS setup didn't change since last year, so maybe there's a
> bug somewhere. Is your quoted command what you used to type last year?
> 
> -- 
> Sylvain
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 04:43:58PM -0400, Devon Sean McCullough wrote:
> > Sylvain,
> > 
> > Thanks for replying.  With no anonymous CVS access, how can I hack?
> > CVS is an evil black box to me, so please keep it simple.
> > 
> > Google (emacs anonymous cvs) --[I'm feeling lucky]-->       
> > http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs
> > 
> > $ export CVS_RSH="ssh"
> > $ cvs -z3 -d:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/emacs diff emacs
> > cvs server: I know nothing about emacs
> > $ cvs -z3 -d:ext:address@hidden:/webcvs/emacs diff emacs
> > cvs server: I know nothing about emacs
> > $
> > 
> > It worked last year, what's the incantation now?
> > 
> >             Peace
> >                     --Devon
> >      /~\
> >      \ /    Health Care
> >       X     not warfare
> >      / \
> > 
> >     Dubya won the digital vote
> >     Kerry won the popular vote
> > 
> > Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 21:18:20 +0200
> > From: Sylvain <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> > 
> > Hello (I don't know your real name).
> > 
> > I adjusted a link that pointed to the FAQs list instead of a specific
> > answer, but we were already told the CVS instructions are hard to
> > find, and we thought we had fixed this issue back then.
> > 
> > Would you be so kind to try and find the instructions to perform an
> > anonymous access of the Emacs project, and explain what was difficult,
> > and possibly suggest a better way to present the information?
> > 
> > Thanks and best regards,
> > 
> > -- 
> > Sylvain
> > 
> > On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 11:17:27AM -0400, Richard M. Stallman wrote:
> > > Can you make it easier to find these instructions?
> > > It appears to be too hard.
> > > 
> > > ------- Start of forwarded message -------
> > > Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:51:55 -0400 (EDT)
> > > To: address@hidden
> > > In-reply-to: <address@hidden> (address@hidden)
> > > Subject: Re: shell
> > > 
> > >    From: "Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden>
> > >    Reply-to: address@hidden
> > >    Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:38:42 -0400
> > > 
> > >    Savannah has instructions about how to do anonymous access.
> > >    Please take a look, they should be easy to find.
> > > 
> > > They aren't.
> > > ------- End of forwarded message -------