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authorpeter <peter@FreeBSD.org>2002-09-02 05:50:28 +0000
committerpeter <peter@FreeBSD.org>2002-09-02 05:50:28 +0000
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Import cvs-1.11.2 onto vendor branch
Obtained from: http://www.cvshome.org/
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@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
How to write code for CVS
+* Source
+
+Patches against the development version of CVS are most likely to be accepted:
+
+ $ cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.cvshome.org/cvsroot co ccvs
+
* Compiler options
If you are using GCC, you'll want to configure with -Wall, which can
@@ -141,7 +147,7 @@ process the following should exist:
- Most of the time, a test case (see TESTS). It can be quite
frustrating to fix a bug only to see it reappear later, and adding
the case to the testsuite, where feasible, solves this and other
- problems.
+ problems. See the TESTS file for notes on writing new tests.
If you solve several unrelated problems, it is generally easier to
consider the desirability of the changes if there is a separate patch
@@ -180,20 +186,20 @@ intentional, to avoid a last minute rush to get new features in.
Anyone can add themselves to the following mailing lists:
- devel-cvs. Unless you are accepted as a CVS developer as
+ dev. Unless you are accepted as a CVS developer as
described in the DEVEL-CVS file, you will only be able to
read this list, not send to it. The charter of the list is
also in DEVEL-CVS.
- commit-cvs. The only messages sent to this list are sent
+ cvs. The only messages sent to this list are sent
automatically, via the CVS `loginfo' mechanism, when someone
checks something in to the master CVS repository.
test-results. The only messages sent to this list are sent
automatically, daily, by a script which runs "make check"
and "make remotecheck" on the master CVS sources.
-To subscribe to devel-cvs, commit-cvs, or test-results, send
-a message to "majordomo@cvshome.org" whose body consists of
-"subscribe <list>", where <list> is devel-cvs, commit-cvs or
-test-results.
+To subscribe to dev, cvs, or test-results, send
+a message to "<list>-subscribe@ccvs.cvshome.org" or visit
+http://ccvs.cvshome.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList and follow the
+instructions there.
One other list related to CVS development is bug-cvs. This is the
list which users are requested to send bug reports to. Anyone can
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