On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Rick Byers wrote:

> One more question though, is there any way to do the sup without having to
> keep a copy of the tree?  It seems redundant to have the cvs files, the
> working files, AND a sup directory.

There's no way around it, no.

> I was planning on having sup recieve the changed files into a temporary
> directory, import them into my CVS tree, then delete the original supped
> files.

The problem with that is that next time you sup, instead of just
getting the set of changes, which will total perhaps a few megabytes,
you'll have to pull down the entire source tree, which is over a
hundred megabytes.

> I could also sup into my working directory (/usr/src), but I guess I'd
> have to commit any changes first - which probably isn't a good idea for
> work in progress.

No. You want to import, which means it should go somewhere other
than a current checkout. You'll need a current checkout from your
own tree later on in order to merge.

For removals, see my script. I just do a find on the current checkout
and the tree to be imported, and compare the two lists to find
files that need to be deleted.

cjs

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