From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 27 21:16:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [202.53.40.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6BCB37C1A4 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:16:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA26632; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 14:16:11 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA16196; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 14:16:05 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200007280416.OAA16196@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 From: Gregory Bond To: behanna@zbzoom.net Cc: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: General update methodology question In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:50:30 -0400. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 14:16:05 +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 4) As time progresses, cvs up from my local mirror, build and > install. BUT, prior to doing that, tag my local copy > (e.g., "WORKS_7-26-2000"). The idea here is that if someone > does a hasty commit, and I suffer for it, I can easily get > back to where I was. Except that (IIUC) next time you cvsup-d the repository, your local tag would be deleted. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message