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From: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:15:55PM -0500, Ken Smith wrote:
> Because users, through lack of understanding about cvsup servers,
> are at least somewhat likely to on occasion try cvsup-ing twice
> at short intervals.  Since there is virtually no way to guarantee
> two separate servers sync-ed from cvsup-master at exactly the same
> time and have exactly the same content this can result in some
> very odd results, with attempts at editing out changes (because
> the second server was a bit farther behind than the first server)
> and that sort of thing.  The same could potentially hold true for
> "Tier-2" servers that sync from cvsup.freebsd.org instead of from
> cvsup-master.freebsd.org.

That's the gist of the commit.  :-)

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