From owner-cvs-all Wed Aug 23 10:42:44 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from genius.systems.pavilion.net (genius.systems.pavilion.net [212.74.1.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E038337B422; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 10:42:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by genius.systems.pavilion.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 40EDF9B2D; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:42:40 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:42:40 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Nate Williams Cc: Warner Losh , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Message-ID: <20000823184240.B13773@pavilion.net> References: <200008231651.KAA12190@nomad.yogotech.com> <200008231604.KAA11402@nomad.yogotech.com> <20000814003636.A74639@pavilion.net> <200008140753.AAA08038@netplex.com.au> <20000819124824.E88550@lucifer.bart.nl> <20000822161835.B807@dragon.nuxi.com> <20000823091714.D650@pavilion.net> <200008231648.KAA02382@billy-club.village.org> <200008231704.LAA02617@billy-club.village.org> <200008231707.LAA12343@nomad.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200008231707.LAA12343@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:07:05AM -0600 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:07:05AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > > Both true. And both problems today. We won't have the TOPS-20 > > version numbering where you'd have numbers like > > 5.0(123) > > 5.1(345) > > 5.2(9534) > > 6.0(23) > > > > Also, I don't see a functional difference between DATE-NUMBER and just > > NUMBER, especially since it isn't in the CVS tree. However, a GMT > > date down to the second as a change number id, then that would make > > checking out from CVS to that point possible. > > That would be cool. Actually, a GMT date would be adequate for me, > instead of using a number, since that makes things really easy from a > CVS point of view. I'd actually prefer that to a number, for the > reasons mentioned. If we had an incrementing number we need locking and a counter file. If we have "utime/user" we probably don't. Utime (by which I mean any format with a resolution of a second) on it's own probably isn't sufficient without a lock and a sub increment counter (although a byte from /dev/urandom may work..... only joking! :) Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message