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Linux Desktop Hacks
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Linux Desktop Hacks

by Nicholas Petreley, Jono Bacon
March 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
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Chapter 9, Administration and Automation
#87 Speed Up Compiles
HACK
Then you’ll see the code checked out to your computer, one file at a time.
To update your local copy with the latest changes from the CVS server, you
need to go into a checked-out directory (such as the kdevelop directory in
our example), and type:
foo@bar:~$ cvs update -PAd
When you run this command, only the files that were changed since your
initial checkout will be copied to your computer. This ensures that a mini-
mal amount of bandwidth is used for keeping your code current.
CVS is a powerful and competent source control system, but it is also one of
the most confounding pieces of software to use, particularly when adding
files to a server. For more information, I recommended you read the free
book Open Source Development with CVS at http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/.
New Kid on the Block: Subversion
Although CVS has been around for a long time and a lot of open source
projects use it, it has some limitations which some developers find frustrat-
ing, including not being able to store metadata (properties) associated with
files and not being able to properly version directories. An alternative sys-
tem called Subversion, which overcomes these limitations, is rapidly taking
over as a replacement for CVS, and many projects now provide access to
their source code using Subversion.
The command for accessing a Subversion repository is ...
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