From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 1 1: 4:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-5-187.zoominternet.net [24.154.5.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28ECD37BB56 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 01:04:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rom@topperwein.dyndns.org) Received: (from root@localhost) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA74592 for behanna@mail.zbzoom.net; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 04:05:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rom) Received: from mail.zbzoom.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by topperwein.zbzoom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA24356 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 03:55:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from behanna@mail.zbzoom.net) Message-ID: <39813C6F.EB875EFE@mail.zbzoom.net> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 03:55:27 -0400 From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: behanna@zbzoom.net Organization: Western Pennsylvania Pizza Disposal Unit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: General update methodology question References: <200007280416.OAA16196@lightning.itga.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gregory Bond wrote: > > 4) As time progresses, cvs up from my local mirror, build and > > install. BUT, prior to doing that, tag my local copy > > (e.g., "WORKS_7-26-2000"). The idea here is that if someone > > does a hasty commit, and I suffer for it, I can easily get > > back to where I was. > > Except that (IIUC) next time you cvsup-d the repository, your local tag would > be deleted. I suppose I could tag -b "WORKS" the first time, cvs update -r "WORKS" to switch to my new branch, then tag the branch and merge out from my local repository's "mainline" whenever I resync it. Chris BeHanna behann@zbzoom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message