[m-dev.] for review: make anonymous remote CVS access available.

[Tyson Dowd]

On 09-Aug-2000, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 09-Aug-2000, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > +++ include/contributions.inc	2000/08/09 02:21:24
> > @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
> >  <H2>Contributed Programs and Libraries</H2>
> >  
> > +<H3>Developer Documentation</H3>
> > +There is some developer documentation at the Mercury
> > +
> 
> That is incomple
> ;-)

Weird, I went to fix this and found out I already had.

Index: include/contributions.inc
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/w3/include/contributions.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 contributions.inc
--- include/contributions.inc   1999/11/04 04:04:32     1.1
+++ include/contributions.inc   2000/08/09 02:21:24
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 <H2>Contributed Programs and Libraries</H2>
  
+<H3>Developer Documentation</H3>
+There is some developer documentation at the Mercury
+<a href="<? echo $root ?>/information/developer.html">developer
information page</a>.
+
<H3>Mercury Libraries and Programs</H3>
If you've written some code using Mercury we'd love to find out

> > +	<li> You almost certainly want to add the following lines to
> > +	your .cvsrc (in your home directory).
> > +
> > +<pre>
> > +	cvs -z6
> > +	diff -u -N
> > +	update -Pd
> > +</pre>
> > +
> > +	<li> This turns on compression in client/server transfers, uses
> > +	the preferred Mercury diff format (unified diff with new files
> > +	shown as diffs), prunes empty directories and picks up new
> > +	directories.
> 
> Last time I checked, there were problems with enabling `-N' by default,
> since `cvs diff -N' crashed if a file had been deleted.

I've used it for years and never encountered a problem.  So perhaps it
has been fixed (or perhaps I've never encountered exactly the right
situation).  

I've fixed the other problems.  I'll commit this fairly soon.

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       Tyson Dowd           # 
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     trd at cs.mu.oz.au        # 
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