From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 10 11:56:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8097E37B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:56:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from warez.scriptkiddie.org (uswest-dsl-142-38.cortland.com [209.162.142.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB2543EC2 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:56:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lamont@scriptkiddie.org) Received: from [192.168.69.11] (unknown [192.168.69.11]) by warez.scriptkiddie.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E0D862D1A; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:56:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:56:26 -0800 (PST) From: Lamont Granquist To: Dmitry Morozovsky Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM? In-Reply-To: <20021210201135.H10798-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> Message-ID: <20021210115422.T3061-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Lamont Granquist wrote: > LG> >From the man page, I'm not really sure where it makes a difference other > LG> than when someone is playing with IFS, but $@ seems to be more of what I > LG> intended... > > Please note quotes explicitly, "$@" is really needed where your parameters > contain spaces (bad practice in filenames, yeah, but don't make yourself > another one PITA you can avoid ;-P ) got it. > LG> And in case anyone is still reading this now, I'd like to throw out the > LG> suggestion that CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM should really be an option to cvs > LG> rtag and should thereby be settable in one's .cvsrc file and the option > LG> should get transmitted to the cvs pserver, eliminating the kind of > LG> asymmetry I just documented. > > I do agree; however, as cvs is a contributed software, this should be discussed > and/or reported via cvsbug(8). Actually CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM is a local hack in FreeBSD, and which originated with FreeBSD, so freebsd-hackers is as good a place as any to bitch about it... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message