[coreboot] svn: switching subversion from LinuxBIOS to coreboot
Robinson Tryon
bishop.robinson at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 04:43:10 CET 2008
On Jan 16, 2008 8:24 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
<c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
> !!!! WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING !!!!
> If you think you see anything that looks like an error message, STOP
> IMMEDIATELY.
> ...
> Write to the list with any questions before your tree is beyond recovery.
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here's a quick and easy way to back up your working copy (assuming it
has uncommitted changes in it).
Because Subversion stores all of its version-control bits in the .svn
subdirectories of a checkout, it's really easy to back up your working
copy before trying any commands with which you are not familiar.
For example:
qubit at uglyduckling:~/src$ ls
coreboot-v3 superiotool
qubit at uglyduckling:~/src$ cp -r coreboot-v3/ coreboot-v3-BACKUP
qubit at uglyduckling:~/src$ ls
coreboot-v3 coreboot-v3-BACKUP superiotool
(... Now that you have a backup, do all of your hairy work on the
coreboot-v3/ directory ...)
If you have SVN problems and want to start over, just restore from the backup:
qubit at uglyduckling:~/src$ rm -rf coreboot-v3
qubit at uglyduckling:~/src$ cp -r coreboot-v3-BACKUP/ coreboot-v3
qubit at uglyduckling:~/src$ ls
coreboot-v3 coreboot-v3-BACKUP superiotool
I just did a fresh checkout of the coreboot-v3 tree and it looks like
it's only 11 MB, so unless you have a lot of uncommitted source files,
it should be relatively fast and simple to backup your working copy
whenever you need to.
--R
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