Cvs commit notifications?
by Lois Desplat · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 02/16/2005 (4:29 pm) · 4 replies
Hi,
TSE in its current state is a true moving target in that a lot of the core parts of the engine are changing in some way and that makes it hard to do custom modifications and still benefit from the development of tse by gg. That is something that I am willing to endure but what would make it even better is if there was some sort of cvsmail type of thing for TSE.
It would be great to receive by mail, or maybe have a list on the website, of the various tse commits from gg with comments on what changed and the associated patch files. This is particularly important as like this, I could save a lot of time by choosing only the relevant patches.
Let me know if there's already something like that in place or if not what you guys think about it. I think it would be very helpful for tse at least until all the major milestones are finished.
Thank you,
Lois.
TSE in its current state is a true moving target in that a lot of the core parts of the engine are changing in some way and that makes it hard to do custom modifications and still benefit from the development of tse by gg. That is something that I am willing to endure but what would make it even better is if there was some sort of cvsmail type of thing for TSE.
It would be great to receive by mail, or maybe have a list on the website, of the various tse commits from gg with comments on what changed and the associated patch files. This is particularly important as like this, I could save a lot of time by choosing only the relevant patches.
Let me know if there's already something like that in place or if not what you guys think about it. I think it would be very helpful for tse at least until all the major milestones are finished.
Thank you,
Lois.
#2
Looking forward to milestone 2 being finished.
02/19/2005 (7:23 pm)
Thanks for the answer. It's too bad that this can't happen.Looking forward to milestone 2 being finished.
#3
08/10/2005 (8:43 pm)
If you use Subversion for your revision control system, take a look at the section in "The Book" about "vendor branches". Treat major CVS check-ins as vendor drops and use Subversion's merging ability to merge the changes into your trunk. 
#4
08/11/2005 (4:07 pm)
Yep, that's a good idea Kenneth. It's essentially what I do at home with Perforce. Merge with Beyond Compare, and check in the differences. SVN and Perforce make it easy to see batches of changes like that. 
Associate Kyle Carter
Unfortunately, it's unlikely to happen in the near future. The reasons are complex, multifaceted, and largely non-technical. We do try to make a forum post whenever we do a major checkin. Beyond that the best thing is to probably keep a clean checkout of TSE around and do an update every morning. :)
Sorry I can't give you a better answer!