Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 13:09:14 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: terry@lambert.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the deal with cc? *CRAP* Message-ID: <199704302009.NAA02609@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199704301711.KAA07173@austin.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Apr 30, 97 10:11:53 am
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> > Physically rearrange the CVS repository to move them and their history > > to the new location (sed script time) so that they aren't largely > > duplicated, is what I meant. > > You can't do that, because it destroys the ability to checkout a version > of the sources from before the move -- which, after all, is the > whole point of CVS. You can too; it just checks out to a different place. If the build environment is sufficiently modular, that won't matter. It probably isn't, though. > If you really don't want any of the history, then I'd suggest not > fetching the repository. Just use CVSup in checkout mode with > "tag=." and keep yourself up-to-date with -current. I do want the history. I don't want the duplicate code. CVS needs repository "symlinks". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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