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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