Re: ufsstat - testers / feedback wanted!

From: Andreas Kohn <andreas.kohn_at_gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:14:50 +0200
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 11:14 -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:18:54AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> > Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> > >On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:27:50AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> > >
> > >>Thanks - great suggestion!  I'll do that.  Any ideas how to remove the 
> > >>FBSDID line jitter from the patches?
> > >
> > >
> > >When you check out the files from CVS, do not expand the CVS keywords by
> > >doing: cvs co -kk
> > 
> > So, this brings up a quick question:  what methods do most developers 
> > use when doing things like this?  I looked in the developer's handbook, 
> > but didn't see any quick guide on a good method.  Do you keep the local 
> > cvs repo up to date, then check it out, make changes, etc?  How do you 
> > do the diffs, and track all the changes, while testing too?  I'd like to 
> > kind of copy someone else's known-functional method instead of coming up 
> > with my own.
> 
> The easiest way with existing tools is to work in a copy checked out
> from a locally mirrored CVS repository.  You can then use "cvs diff" to
> generate diffs.  

> If you add new files, you will need to hack the CVS
> metadate yourself if you want to use "cvs diff -N" to include those
> files.  That's ugly, but it should work.  

This should not be needed at all. cvs add works as well. 

Regards,
--
Andreas


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