[Developers] Subversion support for 'make <cvs|svn|>update'

[Erik Schnetter]

On Oct 1, 2007, at 11:05:11, Thomas Radke wrote:

> Frank Loeffler wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> this patch adds Subversion support for the Makefile in the following
>> way:
>>
>> make cvsupdate
>>   will continue to do what it did in the past: updating Cactus
>>   and thorns which are in CVS
>>
>> new:
>> make svnupdate
>>   will update thorns which are in Subversion
>>
>> make update
>>   will update thorns that are either in CVS or Subversion
>
> Hi Frank,
>
> I suggest to have only one command to update a given Cactus flesh
> checkout and accompanying arrangements, regardless of which  
> repositories
> an arrangement originates from. The command should just do what's
> appropriate, eg. do a 'cvs/svn update' when a CVS/.svn subdirectory is
> found in the directory to be updated.
> I would then mark the old command 'cvsupdate' as depricated and  
> redirect
> to 'update'.

I second this suggestion.

Is there anybody who wants to implement that for darcs?  I.e., call  
"darcs pull" if a directory _darcs is found.

-erik

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