RE: [Sdcc-user] sdcc sources .... How to use WinCVS

[Dafni & R. B. <da...@ho...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Schmitt [mailto:msc...@ba...]
> Sent: Mittwoch, 20. September 2000 09:59
> To: da...@ho...; SDCC-USER
> Subject: Re: [Sdcc-user] sdcc sources .... How to use WinCVS
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> Dafni & Robert Berger schrieb:
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> > > haven't tried that one. you mean dos-box command like above and then
> > > start wincvs ?
> > >
> >
> > In WinCVS you have a box to type TCL directly which comes up like:
> > TCL is available, shell is enabled : help (select and press enter)
> > (It is at the bottom of the screen and starts up together with CVS)
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> OK, so you have some kind of a command prompt ... haven't seen that ...
>
> > > yes compression is very important, i have used -z5 but -z9 ?
> i will try
> > > that. does anybody have the docs explaining the -z command ?
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> i have played a bit with the -z option. if works from 1 to 9 what is the
> highest
> compression. the lower the value the quicker you get informations about
> what is tranfered. if i use -z9 my pc transfers only one package to
> sourceforge and receives only one. with a lower value use can see one
> "information line" after another. with -z9 you will see nothing for a
> while until the receive transfer has finished and then all printouts
> come in a burst .... this -z9 is indeed a bit faster as there are no
> gaps during the transfer.
>
> > > > (my CVS folder is approx. 8 MB - am I missing something ?)
> > >
> > > when did you do your last update ?
> > 27. Aug. 2000 approx 13:00
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> sandeep had stored the binutils for AVR in the sdcc folder that exploded
> the amount of data that was the reason why
> > > the whole src as a single zip file is >10MB at the moment.
> now the binutils are placed in a different folder
>
> before
> sdcc\as
> sdcc\bin
> sdcc\src
> sdcc\binutils
> ...
>
> now
> sdcc\...
> binutils\...
>
> the binutil folder under sdcc is empty.
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> > > > Don't forget to check create missing directories that exist in the
> > > > repository in the update settings, because otherwise you will
> > > miss them when
> > > > someone puts new directories in SDCC.
> > >
> > > ahhh, that is the point ! so wincvs is just looking better
> than doscvs ?
> > > but not more reliable ?
> > > but that all is the opposite of that what you mentioned at the
> > > beginning...
> >
> > I don't understand. This is the way CVS works. It's no matter of
> > reliability.
> > Each local folder has a CVS subfolder where the changes are
> kept for each
> > local file.
> > Well, if you don't have the folder, you need to check it out.
> > Check create missing directories and update and everything is fine.
> > If you just do a query update it will not show you the new folders.
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> hmm if that is true, it would explain a lot.
> how does wincvs deals with that ?
> do you "see" the new folder(s) ? and you say yes check them out ?
> i have to browse the cvs with my webbrowser and search for new folders,
> or do a complete checkout ..

No, I don't see the the new folders this way. There should be another way. I
have to check this at work, where I have my own CVS server and where I am
using WinCVS as clients.

I just go to the root folder and issue the update command with create
missing directories checked . The missing folders appear magically on my PC.

I will come back to you soon, hopefully with a solution to see the new
folders from the CVS server.

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> > No, I don't have dos cvs installed at all. I use only wincvs,
> the TCL engine
> > of it to log in and to retrieve the whole source tree once,
> then only to log
> > in and WinCVS as it is supposed to be used.
>
> understand. will try the wincvs when i have finished my house (i am
> building on at the moment so not much time left..)
> when i had tried wincvs (with very much help from michael hope thanks
> again) i was not able to login at all. but i am not shure if i had tried
> to login as anonymous or with my sourceforge id as i have write access
> to sdcc and at that time i wanted to do some uploads.
> again, you say it works for, so it must work for me too. will check that
> when there is time (in long cold winter nights when kids are sleeping )
> may i contact you the nagain if i run into trouble ?

Feel free to contact me any time.

>
> > > but nevertheless thanks. one day i will find a solution how to update
> > > the sources reliable, regardless how.
>
> after all, the only reliable way is a complete checkout i guess.
> i-net access is getting cheaper and faster
> sdcc is getting bigger and bigger
>

Well yes, this is what I am doing.

> thanks to all that helped me.
>
> Michael