[ODE] CVS is Scary

Anselm Hook anselm at hook.org
Mon Nov 4 09:43:01 2002


> Presumably, I now just need to do "cvs update" in future to pick up any
> changes?

Yup.

> I assume that the "anonymous" user I logged in as doesn't have
> permissions to lock or change any files within CVS? So there's no danger
> that me being crap at using WinCVS can cause any damage to the code tree?

Right - there's no way you can cause any damage.  It's totally safe.

> I've seen other CVS based projects that produce a "nightly tarball" from
> their repositories. Is this something that's been considered for ODE? To
> save me worrying about accidentally deleting all the code. Or something. ;-)

Russ has to answer that.  I suppose once it moves to sourceforge this will
happen.

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