CVSup Advanced Points

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The present article assumes a basic understanding of CVSup operation. It documents several delicate issues connected with source synchronization via CVSup, viz. effective solutions to the problem of stale files as well as special source updating cases; which issues are likely to cause apparently inexplicable troubles.


Table of Contents
1 Preface
2 Introduction
3 A useful python script: cvsupchk
4 Examples of more advanced source management

1 Preface

This document is the fruit of the author's attempts to fully understand the niceties of CVSup & source updating. :-) While the author has made every effort to make these pages as informative and correct as possible, he is only human and may have made all sorts of typos, mistakes, etc. He will be very grateful for any comments and/or suggestions you send to his e-mail address, .