From owner-cvs-all Sat Jan 27 23:33:17 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EA4737B6B3; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:32:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from FreeBSD.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA63266; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:32:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3A73CB1E.23305577@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:32:46 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tcpdump print-smb.c References: <200101242056.f0OKut961097@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > > In message 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