From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 9 16:44:42 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA19767 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 16:44:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA19759 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 16:44:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA02353; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 17:22:35 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199612100022.RAA02353@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: siguing into current from a random version To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 17:22:35 -0700 (MST) Cc: j@uriah.heep.sax.de, chat@FreeBSD.org, terry@lambert.org In-Reply-To: <199612092326.PAA06087@root.com> from "David Greenman" at Dec 9, 96 03:26:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > In fact, in the history of the project, I don't think it has ever occurred. > The mistakes I was refering to are botched diffs and incomplete commits. Isn't and commit, such that a subsequent checkout won't compile successfully, either incomplete or bothed, by definition? You can argue that if you checkout while commits are in progress, you shouldn't be able to expect it to compile. But what if you checkout while no commits are in progress? How can you justify it not compiling then? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.