Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Moving a sourceforge project to arch

[Charles Duffy]

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 15:08, Michael McCracken wrote:
> I get offers of help from people unfamiliar with version control, and 
> who don't have time to learn CVS. I can tell them how to get the code, 
> but they don't want to commit - they want to send me their changed 
> version. I have to put up, since beggars can't be choosers. Does anyone 
> have an opinion on whether or not arch makes this kind of thing easier 
> to handle? If so, why, and how would you handle it?

Presuming you're talking about people sending you tarballs (the one case
that Brian May didn't really handle):

Arch can handle this kind of thing nicely, especially in tagline mode
(where you don't need to worry about them doing things like giving you a
tarball with renamed files but untouched tags). You can just [for
instance] clear out your old source files from a copy of your tree (tla
inventory -s | xargs rm), unpack the tarball they sent on top of it, and
use the regular commands to see what they did (tla changes), maybe use
your regular tools to back out bits you don't like (vimdiff $FILE `tla
file-find $FILE`), and so forth.

There's probably better idioms for these things someone else can
suggest, too.