Fetching updates on Dreamhack?

[ninetydegrees]

How does one update their repos on their hack now? The 'old' script no longer pulls anything for me (what used to be on http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/wiki/index.php/Dev_Maintenance) and I don't understand how I can keep up with changes. :/

(Context: I'm on Windows; I use PuTTY and WinSCP).

Edit: ok, if anybody else wonders, short answer is you can no longer update your hack using old methods. :/

Edit 2: long answer is you can switch to the new system. See comments for detailed instructions. :)

Comments

[fu]

Hmm, just realized that the instructions weren't explicit wrt forking, so I've added a sentence

[ninetydegrees]

I actually totally missed that sentence. If I may I think it would be better to tell people to do that first then do all the steps on the server. I didn't expect the back and forth thing. See what I mean?

[fu]

Good point. How do the transition instructions look now?

[ninetydegrees]

Much better imo because you know in advance what you're going to do and why. Can I ask what this means?

Contents of $LJHOME will be live when you start the server
Contents of $LJHOME/ext will be used automatically (no syncing)

It looks like it speaks of the same thing but I don't understand what the difference is, if there is one.

[fu]

Ahhh yes, both $LJHOME and $LJHOME/ext are used as-is, as compared to before when the contens of $LJHOME/cvs/* had to be synced over to $LJHOME first.

So the two are the same thing; the differences only relevant if you're comparing against the old way of doing things. Hmm, I'm not quite sure how to explain.

Maybe take out those two points and instead say:

* all code from dw-free ($LJHOME) and the additional repos under $LJHOME/ext are live. There's no need to run any additional syncing steps

[ninetydegrees]

Oh got it! If you add 'automatically' before live and maybe 'when you start your server' after, this last sentence is perfect. ;)

[foxfirefey]

I have taken Fu's suggestion and your tweaks and put them in place on the wiki page!

[foxfirefey]

I think you are right in that they are both the same thing. They are both talking about how you don't have to run bin/cvsreport.pl. I think they end up as two separate things because before, dw-nonfree and dw-free both had to be synced; now dw-free is the base directory and dw-nonfree is in the ext directory, automatically overrides things in dw-free, and neither need syncing.

I'll try to figure out some alternative wording.