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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/cpio - Imported sources 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Mar 1997 10:28:40 PST."
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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 14:51:02 +0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
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"David O'Brien" wrote:
> > >I want to import v2_4_2 today (or tomarrow), but need a little help with
> > >the steps to doing the merge w/o really messing up the repository.
> > 
> > Wait for it to be moved.
> 
> So how do I proceed?  Is it going to be moved wholesale, or should I
> simple reimport 2.4.2 into contrib and then fix it up?  Problem is we
> would loose all the release tags.

Moving it requires that the release tags go away, so we loose history 
either way.  I'd vote for a clean re-import and fix it from there.

> -- 
> -- David	(obrien@NUXI.com  -or-  obrien@FreeBSD.org)

Cheers,
-Peter