Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 22:16:39 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> Cc: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina), ache@astral.msk.su, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-CVSROOT@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT modules Message-ID: <9501170316.AA23492@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199501161932.TAA00255@isl.cf.ac.uk> References: <199501161919.LAA01106@precipice.Shockwave.COM> <199501161932.TAA00255@isl.cf.ac.uk>
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<<On Mon, 16 Jan 1995 19:32:39 +0000 (GMT), Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> said: >> At some point, we're going to have to remove groff from the cvs tree. > We can't do that because then we can't checkout 2.0 release or other > previously tagged points. I don't see anything bad about this. Once we've released 2.2, there is no reason to keep around old, bogus versions of software that were used two releases previously and isn't maintained (or indeed maintainable, which was PST's principal---and laudable---contribution). > There'd be no problem getting a 2.0R snapshot with the way I did it. The > way you're doing it prevents this though. The ``way you did it'' perverts the design of CVS in a way that makes maintenance almost impossible. (Witness the fact that a new version had been out for quite a while now before someone actually sat down and did the work that CVS is designed to do automatically.) > People should bear in mind that the cvs repository is not easily > munged and that once things go in, they stay in, forever. As I said above, I think that this is a bad way to run a source tree. There are enough copies of the 2.0 sources extant that if anyone /really/ wants to see the sources to that hacked-up groff, they can be satisfied by pointing them towards one of these archives. > We > shouldn't use cvs to do things like run parallel development This, however, is quite true. But the particular example given here is a special case in the extreme. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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