Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 11:36:46 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, pst@shockwave.com Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, ache@astral.msk.su, cvs-CVSROOT@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT modules Message-ID: <199501170036.LAA19321@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>At some point, we're going to have to remove groff from the cvs tree. And rename ngroff to groff? Both will confuse cvs. > I guess the only way to do this is to remove all the current files and then > import into the same area of the tree. That's what I did when I ditched the > old libforms and imported a completely new one although I admit that > was a much simpler job. The principle's the same though. Removing the current files makes little difference to the size of the cvs tree. It just keeps the junk in the Attic. It does reduce the size of the checked out files. >The idea here was to avoid a discontinuity, otherwise there's no way to >ask CVS: "Give me a snapshot of freebsd 2.0R sources." I thought cvs was able to get the old files from Attics, and that's the main reason we are keeping 100% junk in Attics. >Every other convoluted way of doing the same thing involved just as much >code getting stuffed into the attic (sigh). Sigh. It would be worse if we actually kept up with gnu releases. Bruce
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