console enhancements: mouse events etc
Charles Wilson
cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Mon Dec 14 22:19:00 GMT 2009
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:02 +0100, "Thomas Wolff" wrote:
> Hi, please excuse some basic questions about CVS best practice:
>
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > ... Patches are supposed to be against
> > the latest from CVS. And it's also not cumbersome, it's rather quite
> > simple. CVS is doing that for you usually anyway. If you have a
> > patched CVS source tree, just call `cvs up' and the current HEAD is
> > merged with your local changes. Given that fhandler_console.cc wasn't
> > changed for a while anyway, you should not see any merge conflicts.
> >
> In this case yes. In general, if there are merging conflicts, I would
> have to dig around in reject logs, right? (Or do a fresh checkout and
> repatch.)
> Also, since with this workflow I'd have the patched latest version only,
> what is the most convenient way to create the patch diff? Do you
> maintain two checkouts, an unpatched one to base on?
No, CVS does all this for you. Take a look here:
http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/cvsmanual/Conflictsexample.html for
a walkthrough with examples concerning cvs update and merge resolution.
--
Chuck
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