Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:19:05 -0500 From: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml Message-ID: <20040130181905.GA73003@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <20040130181555.GB20403@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <200401301748.i0UHmtut019964@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040130181555.GB20403@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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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. :-) ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org Today's chance of throwing it all away to start a goat farm: 42.8% http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/
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