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List:       subversion-dev
Subject:    Re: Tracking public trees & private mods
From:       Vladimir Prus <ghost () cs ! msu ! su>
Date:       2002-06-13 8:06:12
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Blair Zajac wrote:
> If you wanted to track an open-source project, say APR, but keep
> a set of modifications private, then you could create a svn tree,
> check out the CVS APR inside the svn tree and check in everything,
> including the CVS directories.  Then tracking APR is easy, just cvs
> update, merge any conflicts between the local mods and the APR updates,
> and finally svn commit.

Except that if a file is added in APR, you can very easily forget to run 
"svn add" for it. However, I have a Python code which can read both CVS and 
SVN entries file, so one day I might write a script to automate such adding.

- Volodya


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