A couple more subversion notes

[Daniel Berlin]

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 08:52 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > If it is at all possible we should probably try to keep read-only CVS working
> > (and up-to-date) for HEAD and release-branches.  This will allow occasional
> > contributors and technically-less-provided people to continue working in
> > submit-patch mode or in regular testing without raising the barrier for them.
> > 
> > I guess it should be possible with some commit-trigger scripts which svn
> > surely has?
> 
> I think that's a good idea.  But I don't think it's fair to expect
> Daniel to write it.  It should be feasible for any sufficiently
> interested person to write a script to dump out a patch from SVN,
> queue up the patches, and apply them to the CVS repository.  In fact
> this doesn't even have to be driven from SVN commit scripts.  It
> obviously doesn't have to be a real-time operation, and could be done
> at any time.  For example a cron job could simply grab a diff of
> everything since the last time it ran and then apply it to the CVS
> repository.  The only even slightly tricky part would be getting the
> cvs add and rm commands right.  


The diff driver for the bindings can tell you what files were added,
changed, copied, and removed  between revisions.

This happens to get turned into unidiffs, but that's just what the "diff
generation" callbacks to.

You can do whatever you like with the information,.