During this summer I'll try to help the csup-project (http://mu.org/~mux/csup.html). My main objective is to implement cvs-mode support.

2005-08-25 14:30BR The implementation of the writer part made some progress. GetText is now implemented except for the support to get reverse diffs. That's what I'll do next. I have run some rudimentary tests with deleting away revisions, branches and they seemed to work okay (= produced the same output as `rcs -oREV`).

2005-08-17 16:50BR I'm in the middle of implementing RCS-file support. I took the parser from cvsync (http://www.cvsync.org/). It did save me a little bit of typing. However, updating the file seems to be done quite different in cvsync and CVSup, so I have to adapt the data model of cvsync's RCS-file as close to CVSup as necessary. To make the API similar to the one CVSup has I'm writing an adaption layer. Rigth now most of the routines for updating the file are finished. But writing this data to a file seems to be everything else than easy from what I can tell by looking at CVSup's ToWr-func…

2005-08-09 23:50BR I've made another patch available at http://iserver.hta.fhz.ch/~iamathys/cvsmode_2005-08-09.patch.gz. It fixes a bug in handling binary data when complete files are received and files can now be updated using rsync-algorithm. However, right now there is a problem if the rsync'd file is dead (in Attic).

2005-08-09 11:35BR The current patch is available at http://iserver.hta.fhz.ch/~iamathys/cvsmode.patch.gz. It supports cvsmode, but in a quite inefficient way: It fetches always the complete file, no diffs or anything. That's because the important support for understanding RCS-files is still missing.

My Name ist Christoph Mathys and I am a 23 year old guy from Switzerland {flag-ch} who was lucky enough to be selected for the summer of tax^wcode program. I just finished the 3rd year of studies at the university of applied sciences in Luzern (http://www.hta.fhz.ch/).