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Date:      Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:26:43 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Public Access to Perforce?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408181420070.19515-100000@pancho>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040818110443.55952A-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Robert Watson wrote:

> One of our hopes was to find a model that has some of the benefits of a
> "contrib" model, wherein only more stable/discrete change sets go into
> CVS, but without the more painful aspects of CVS vendor branches or the
> notion of the "primary" copy being maintained elsewhere.

Don't forget the fact that anyone who tracks our CVS trees via cvsup also
winds up with a copy of all that history, forever, on their hard drive.
If the 'history' were to expand to cover all the intermediate and
rejected steps in some of these sub-projects, we would add repo bloat
(and resulting server and download times) for very little gain.

Just because something gets merged into -current doesn't mean that
the changes have to stand, either: there is plenty of evidence that
things get critically reviewed and revised, no matter what the source.

mcl



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