https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1387&p=20634#p20634
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Tuesday, 19 April 2005, 02:43 AM


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I don't think that we are talking about the same thing. :-?

In the case of the beta site, it may be the CVS prereleased version of the software.  I was referring to your setting up a private CVS repository to maintain your modifications to the software, sepperate from any version that is being used.

For example:

You aquire the soure code of the orginal (unmodified by you) version of the software.  You submit it into your private CVS or RCS repository.  When you need to modify any of the code, you check out the files you need to modify.  After you are finished, you check the modified versions back into the system.  The system will compare the new version with the prior version and store only the changed parts of the files.

Latter when you need to access the files you can chack them out again.  If you need to merge you changes into a newly released version of the software, the control system can provide you with just the patches or it can try to merge you changes into the new version for you.  Leaving you to manually update only those parts of the software that has changed so much from the previous offical release that the control system can not apply the patches automatically.

P.S. I don't know how well or poorly the Windows ports of CVS and RCS work.  The old Dos port of RCS did not work as well as the native unix version, because of the 8.3 limitations of the Dos filesystem.  Other than some brief experience with the Dos port, I have used the native unix version only.

Pangor