From owner-cvs-all Mon Aug 7 0: 9:26 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47CCC37BD15; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 00:09:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.9.3/1.13) id KAA59173; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 10:08:56 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 10:08:56 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: "David O'Brien" Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb Makefile Message-ID: <20000807100856.A58977@sunbay.com> References: <200008041833.LAA07228@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000804215902.C6427@sunbay.com> <20000804132518.A24626@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000804132518.A24626@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 01:25:18PM -0700 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 01:25:18PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:59:02PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > So you mean you temporarily repo-copied contrib/gdb into contrib/gdb.291 > > before your import? > > Yes. > > > Why? > > Dealing with 99 conflicts can take a while. During this time -current > would [potentially] be broken. And that is just to get it to compile, > much less work properly. So in the past, I've done large imports on a > private CVS repo, fixed the conflicts and then tested and fixed any > other problems that were apparent. THEN I would repeat the exercise on > the real CVS repo repeating every commit I made on my private repo. This > time I didn't want to to do all that, and I convinced the CVS meisters > the current path was easier. > Except it would take all CVS mirrors to repeat these :-( -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message