[Savannah-hackers] Re: GNU Website under CVS?

[Loic Dachary]

 > We'll have to wait for Loic for a definitive answer, but I have at
 > least some information.
 > 
 > Your changes made in gnudist:~www will definitely not be lost.  That
 > directory is now a cvs working directory, checked out from the
 > repository and periodically updated with "cvs update".  I'm not sure
 > if changes there are automatically committed periodically, but it's
 > probably a good idea for you to commit it yourself anyway.  That way
 > you can give it a suitable log message, and it also eliminates the
 > possibility of merge conflicts turning up on the http-available copy.
 > 
 > Loic has sent out several messages about this, and I believe the
 > current status is that it is okay to modify gnudist:~www, although
 > that method will be deprecated at some point.  The reason I
 > recommended that Paul start using CVS is because he'll need to learn
 > that eventually anyway, and it solves his immediate problem of emacs
 > treating software/software.html as read-only.

 Thanks for the explanations Mark, it's 100% accurate.

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