Re: Gnumeric from the cvs repository

[Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com>]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 05:28:19PM +1100, Jason Stokes wrote:
> cvs -z3 checkout gnumeric
>
> Later, I want to try to compile the stable branch.  I get it with
>
> cvs -z3 checkout -r GNUMERIC_0_56 -d gnumeric-stable-1.6 gnumeric
>
> Is CVS smart enough to recognise I've already checked gnumeric out, and
> only fetch the diffs between the latest repository of gnumeric and
> release 0.56?  Or does it just stupidly fetch the whole tree again,

It fetches the whole tree again.  Which is not much of a loss.
Development moves pretty quickly I'd guess that at 80% or more of
the files have been modified.

cvs update is smart enough to only update the files that have
changed.  I generally use a tarball for the stable release to ensure
I see exactly what the distributions use.  Then CVS for development.

Please contact me when you're ready to go, I've can reccomend lots
of projects.

Good Luck,
    Jody