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dr:cvs

CVS for drupal crash test dummies

(or a few notes on how to actually use cvs on drupal)

  • checking out 4.6.4, 4.7 or HEAD:
dcv co -rDRUPAL-4-6-4 drupal
dcv co -rDRUPAL-4-7 drupal
dcv co -rHEAD drupal

* the newly checked-out version will be available after a
cd drupal
  • diff-ing our checked-out, then modified version with 4-6-4:
dcv diff -rDRUPAL-4-6-4
  • building a patch:
cd drupal; 
dcv diff -up > mychanges.patch
  • history of a file (g2.module):
ccv log g2.module
  • backporting (thanks to DWW):
cvs co -r DRUPAL-4-7 modules/g2
cd modules/g2
cvs update -j 1.13 -j 1.15 g2.module
(resolve conflicts, if any)
cvs commit -m "backporting changes from HEAD" g2.module"

the key step in that command is the “cvs update -j”, which means to merge the revisions you specified into your current working copy.

  • dcv/ccv is a 3-line script that just does this:
    • dcv
  set CMD="e:\Program Files\Zend\ZendStudioClient-5.0.0\bin\SourceControl\cvs\cvs.exe"
  set ACCESS=-d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal
  %CMD% %ACCESS% %*
  • ccv
  set CMD="e:\Program Files\Zend\ZendStudioClient-5.0.0\bin\SourceControl\cvs\cvs.exe"
  set ACCESS=-d:pserver:someuser:hispassword@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib
  %CMD% %ACCESS% %*
  • when patching the database,
    • create a function in updates.inc to update existing files
    • diff the database\database.<engine> files used for initial site creation
dr/cvs.txt · Last modified: 2020/11/23 17:23 by 127.0.0.1