Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 22:06:17 -0500 From: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@pobox.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Source code commits Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19970131030617.00922bc8@mindspring.com>
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At 01:26 AM 1/30/97 -0700, Nate Williams wrote: >> I suggested a sort of "write-through" validation/submission system for >> the CVS tree a year ago, where anyone could "commit" to the source >> tree but for those people who weren't actually authorized to commit >> directly, what would happen instead is that the diffs would be >> automagically sent to the person or persons actually responsible for >> the code in question, and they would review and optionally commit it. > >Aieee, why go for trivial solutions when we can do something much more >useful (and difficult). > >I think it would be easier to rewrite CVS from scratch. :) Starting with RCS. A nice library with a well defined interface. Then CVS can be put on top of that. This is actually on my todo list. Above it, however, is getting a stable machine to do the coding on. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - kpneal@pobox.com XCOMM House of Retrocomputing: - kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu XCOMM http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ - kevinneal@bix.com XCOMM "Rebooting with command:" -- SPARCstation 10 boot prom
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