[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Re: CVS admin request

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Wed Jul 19 18:29:38 UTC 2006


Mike McGrath wrote:
> On 7/19/06, Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hans de Goede wrote:
>> > Hi Warren,
>> >
>> > Could you please create an empty devel branch for gkrellm. gkrellm is
>> > already in CVs, but only RHL-8 and RHL-9 branches as after that it 
>> moved
>> > to core, now its moving back and because of the exisiting branches
>> > cvs-import.sh won't work.
>> >
>> > I already put this on the CVSSyncNeeded wiki-page, in the special
>> > requests section, but special requests usually take ages to get 
>> handled.
>> > And this is currently blocking import of 2 new packages into FE 
>> (gkrellm
>> > and gkrellm-wifi).
>> >
>> > This is also discussed here:
>> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/CVSSyncNeeded
>> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197967
>> >
>> > Thanks & Regards,
>> >
>> > Hans
>>
>> The way the CVS system was designed, it is a huge mess to re-add a devel
>> branch after it has been deleted.  It might be easier to just blow away
>> the entire directory and import it from scratch.  I'll go ahead and do
>> this after talking to infrastructure people.
>>
>> Warren Togami
>> wtogami at redhat.com
>>
> 
> I'd say thats fine.  I can't imagine it breaking anything.
> 
>        -Mike

OK, you should be able to import it fresh now.

Warren




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