Re: Storing static code

[bollu]

>WE have an existing cvs setup where we would like to hold the original
>code that the vendor has sent out - before we mod'd it - so we can do
>diffs against the original code (assume we originally imported code that
>had already been mod'd) to find out what has changed.
>
>Our thinking goes something like this.
>
>1. Create a branch.
>2. Checkout and remove contents of that branch
>- we then have an empty directory on our local copy
>3. Copy the original vendor code in
>4. cvs add and commit it
>
>This would, in theory, leave us with a copy of the vendor code in a branch
>of it's own.

What about just importing the vendor code under another vendor branch?

  cvs import repository vendor_tag2 release_tag

This way, you would have 2 vendor branches; One with the original
unmod'd vendor code and another one with your mod'd code.

Something like this:

      |
      |--------------------------------------
      |             |                       |
    TRUNK  mod'd vendor branch   unmod'd vendor branch
      |             |                       |
      |          release_1             release_1
      |
      V
     HEAD

>
>How does this sound ?
>

How does it sound?

>One last question - once we've done this can we make it read-only in CVS
>(without making it r/o at the o/s level) ?

don't think so.

Cyrille

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