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Date:      Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:51:16 +0100
From:      Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/security/vuxml vuln.xml
Message-ID:  <4050C334.4030707@fillmore-labs.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040311183125.GA7973@lum.celabo.org>
References:  <200403111722.i2BHMXZV076423@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040311180138.GD7809@lum.celabo.org> <4050AD93.6080904@fillmore-labs.com> <20040311183125.GA7973@lum.celabo.org>

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Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 07:18:59PM +0100, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> 
>>Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:22:33AM -0800, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
>>>
>>>>eik         2004/03/11 09:22:33 PST
>>>>
>>>>FreeBSD ports repository
>>>>
>>>>Modified files:
>>>>  security/vuxml       vuln.xml 
>>>>Log:
>>>>add a modified tag to vid 09d418db-70fd-11d8-873f-0020ed76ef5a
>>>>
>>>>Revision  Changes    Path
>>>>1.37      +1 -0      ports/security/vuxml/vuln.xml
>>>
>>>
>>>In addition, the modified entry should be sorted to the top.
>>
>>Is this really desirable? It is much harder to see the diffs in CVS then.
> 
> Yes, that is a downside.  However, it is imperative unless we are
> willing to force all tools to scan the entire file each time for
> updates.  With the chronological sorting, tools can stop once they see a
> date older than the latest entry that they encountered on the last scan.

Since history is considered very valuable in the FreeBSD project, I guess
I would prefer that over a slight runtime optimization for ceratain tools.

How much time does it take to produce a sorted file once and cache that?



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