From owner-freebsd-security Sun Oct 8 23: 9:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail-green.research.att.com (H-135-207-30-103.research.att.com [135.207.30.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FE6B37B502; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:09:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alliance.research.att.com (alliance.research.att.com [135.207.26.26]) by mail-green.research.att.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14C561E054; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 02:09:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from windsor.research.att.com (windsor.research.att.com [135.207.26.46]) by alliance.research.att.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA00325; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 02:08:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fenner Received: (from fenner@localhost) by windsor.research.att.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.5) id XAA13132; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:08:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200010090608.XAA13132@windsor.research.att.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII To: eivind@yes.no Subject: Re: Stable branch Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org References: <4.3.2.20001007214506.00bb7c10@207.227.119.2> <20001008131908.B78013@warning.follo.net> Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:08:57 -0700 Versions: dmail (solaris) 2.2g/makemail 2.9a Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Warner's technique of adding the branch tag for only those files we actually >modify would negate the 30-byte cost, but I don't think it is worthwhile. >If we want to negate that cost, it'd be better to mod CVS to be able to >easily reference the base of a branch tag (as the branch point tag is done >to get around problems in the CVS user interface.) A front end to add the branch point tag after the fact is be pretty trivial. I just wrote freefall:~fenner/bin/tagbp as a proof of concept; it could obviously use a little more error checking but it gets the revision right on everything I tried it on. Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message