Re: CVS vendor and release tags

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On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 08:54 -0500, Tommy Reynolds wrote:
> Uttered "Paul W. Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>, spake thus:
> 
> > > How do I do my initial import of the hardening guide?  
> > > I've read the CVSUsage WiKi, and (what I thought were) pertinent
> > > sections of the Documentation Guide, as well as the CVS general
> > > documentation.  I haven't been able to glean a command line that works.
> > I'm taking this to the list since it involves a general policy and
> > procedural concern, which is CVS tags.  In the past, Karsten and Tammy
> > imported my sources, since there was no One True CVS access.  In
> > general, the command is:
> > 
> >   cvs import <repodir> <vendor-tag> <release-tag>...
> > 
> > What are the vendor and release tags that people should be using to
> > import?  The answers should probably come from a consensus of three
> > individuals -- Karsten (has done lots of importing before IIRC), Tommy
> > (FDP CVS maintainer), and Tammy (resident CVS goddess).
> 
> In the "common/cvs-en.xml" updates that I've recently made, I chose
> to use something like this:
> 
> 	$ export CVS_RSH=/usr/bin/ssh
> 	$ export CVSROOT=':ext:<username>@cvs.fedora.redhat.com:/cvs/docs'
> 	$ cvs import <my-doc-name> <username> "initial"
> 

This worked!  Although, I should have kept the '-m' tag (more
streamlined - no vi ;-).

> as the suggested initial command sequence.  The "vendor" is not
> really that important when it comes to branching, et. al., because we
> should really use explicit "cvs -t foo" to mark each release point
> for the document and then use "foo" as the branching/merging point.
> 
> Cheers

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