Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:32:46 -0800 From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tcpdump print-smb.c Message-ID: <3A73CB1E.23305577@FreeBSD.org> References: <p05010402b694bfca2ece@[128.113.24.161]> <XFMail.010123221817.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200101242056.f0OKut961097@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <p05010402b694bfca2ece@[128.113.24.161]> Garance A Drosihn writes: > : If we're going to whine this much about fixing bugs, we're in > : pretty sad shape. Yes, it would be nice if the "vendor" (in > : this case) picked up the fix, and we did not have the repository > : bloat. > > The bug could have been fixed as a vendor branch import, and then when > the real fix came along, it would still be on the vendor branch. Yes, > this is ugly, but CVS requires you to play stupid games like this > because its support for vendor branches is less than could otherwise > be desired. If doing it this way makes it easier for people down the road while still accomplishing the reasonable goal of allowing developers to fix bugs when necessary, that's the best way to proceed. Can you give us an example of a cvs command line that would accomplish this? I'm assuming that we would simply do an import of the file or files that contain the bug fixes? Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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