Re: patching CVS tree

[Alan Eldridge <alane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 11:03:53AM +0300, Hristo Grigorov wrote:

>I want to patch the xfs CVS tree with the kernel preemptive patch. 
>But, what happens on the next cvs update? Does it remove it automatically ?

Umm, what happens is that you confuse the crap out of CVS. It would be an
ill-advised thing to do.

>And, is it in general recommended to do that or I have to clone the CVS tree
>every time and do my "nasty" expreriments there ? What's your opinion on 
>that ?

Apply your patches each time to a separate build copy. You don't want to
build out of the CVS tree, anyway. Keep it untouched so you can do 'cvs
update' to just pick up the deltas.

-- 
Alan Eldridge
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