Re: [boost] SourceForge CVS

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-07-30 16:31:00

David Abrahams wrote:

 >CVS is working really well now, and it seems to have gotten a lot faster 
in
 >the past week, to boot.

SourceForge is also planning to bring up a new CVS server, and allow 
browser based administration for some of the things I now have to email 
them to do manually.

 > The biggest problem I've had
 >recently is that the CVS documentation doesn't cover my normal usage
 >patterns in an easy HOWTO format, so I've spent a lot of time poring
 >through
 >the docs and doing experiments to figure out how to do what I want. I 
just
 >found http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/, which includes online chapters that
 >look
 >excellent and would probably be a considerable help.

I've had good luck with cvsbook; I guess I should have mentioned it to 
others.

 > I think I'll order the
 >"treeware" version for myself, though. Nonetheless, I think we should 
start
 >an HTML page which covers boost CVS development, and in particular
 >development on branches.

I've got an action item on my do list to do just that; if you want to start 
it, feel free!  Jens had some good thoughts I planned to 
incorporate.  Someone else (Jeremy?) also suggested some procedures a while 
ago.  Good starting places.

--Beman