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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cujo!cproto From: cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au (Computer Protocol) Subject: version control with 386bsd Message-ID: <cproto.716644144@marsh> Summary: version control using RCS or CVS on 386BSD anybody ? Keywords: version control RCS CVS Sender: news@cujo.curtin.edu.au (News Manager) Organization: Curtin University of Technology Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 11:49:04 GMT Lines: 29 Hi there, has anybody had success with RCS or CVS in the 386BSD context? I would like to take some or maybe all of 386bsd-0.1 under version control. I played with both RCS and CVS. Neither seems to be very satisfactory. Take the kernel for example. If you have all kernel sources under RCS control then you have to either check out all sources and include files required for a later make or you have to add some rules to the makefile to check out required sources and remove them after the compilation. The second option doesn't work for include files or if explicit rules are specified for a certain target. The first option has the drawback that after the make you have to remove all sources and includes. Another possibility is to edit all required makefiles to do all individual checking out and remove all sources once they are not required any further. (YUCK) Note that if you check out all required sources for a large make then you require twice the diskspace occupied by your sources. If you use CVS you again have no option but to check out all files in advance before you start your make. Could it be that i'm blind and don't see the obvious solution? Regards - Tibor Sashegyi (cproto@abel.cs.curtin.edu.au)