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Re: Exporting only changed files from CVS


From: Spiro Trikaliotis
Subject: Re: Exporting only changed files from CVS
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:48:45 +0200
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Hello Jonathan,

* On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:33:17PM -0700 Jonathan Hurshman wrote:
 
> I am relatively new to CVS, having used Source Safe and StarTeam in the
> past. I am using CVS to track web development projects. I would like to
> be able to export from CVS into a directory where a non-CVS version of
> the application already resides, and have CVS only update new or
> changed files. Is this even possible?

My approach (I assume there are only text files, that is, files that can
be used with "patch"):

Whenever you make the non-CVS version, make sure you make a tag in your
CVS. For example, I assume the last non-CVS-version is tagged rel_1.

Now, if you want to generate a new one, run the following:

$ cd <CVS-version of your project>
$ # I assume you already have committed every change
$ cvs tag rel_2             # make the tag for the next upgrade
$ cd <non-CVS version of your files>
$ cvs rdiff -uN -r rel_1 -r rel_2 <cvsmodulename>|patch -p1

After this, your non-CVS version should be up-to-date

BEWARE! Make a dry run before doing that on the production server!
Futhermore, you might want to put the "rdiff" into a separate file
before applying patch.

HTH,
   Spiro.

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Spiro R. Trikaliotis
http://www.trikaliotis.net/
http://www.viceteam.org/




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