From owner-cvs-all Sat Jun 16 17:56:11 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9893637B40A; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 17:55:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f5H0ttM97641; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 17:55:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 228B5390F; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 17:55:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Warner Losh Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src - Imported sources In-Reply-To: <200106161717.f5GHHmV41405@harmony.village.org> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 17:55:55 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20010617005555.228B5390F@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20010616120129.DE1DA390F@overcee.netplex.com.au> Peter Wemm write s: > : Second vendor branches (eg: 1.1.2.*) cause **way** more trouble than > : they're worth. > > Peter, > I'm unaware of this restriction. Can you say a few words > about why this is the case? I don't doubt you, but it is good to know > why. Consider this: when you last did a 'cvs import' on FreeBSD, did you check to see if the current vendor branch was 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 or something else? The only time people *other* than the original importer get to find out about this is after they've made a big mistake and imported onto the default 1.1.1 branch and made a good mess of things. Yes it works, but it requires much more continuous vigilance than is typically spent. It is hard enough to get different people to use the same symbolic tag for the vendor branch.. Personally, I dont think it makes sense for FreeBSD unless we're going to be tracking *multiple* vendors for something at once. We dont do that anywhere right now. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message