From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 21 11:30:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA05094 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:30:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA05083 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA13942; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:28:03 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704211828.LAA13942@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Accomodating Terry To: neswold@FNAL.GOV Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:28:03 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Richard Neswold" at Apr 21, 97 09:54:54 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I'm worried about getting all of this baseline code in and then finding > > out 3 months down the road that one of the baseline module changes I > > made was the wrong one, but having no way to back it out or find out > > what the previous code should have looked like without rewriting from > > scratch. > > Just check out the correct "tip" from the cvs repository to overwrite your > modifications. But you aren't checking in the modification history for the independetly developed code. That's the whole point: you *can't* 'just check out the correct "tip"' because you never checked the sucker in in the first place... 8-(. > > Also, if you are trying to follow a set of changes, having them appear > > full-blown in the source tree won't really help your understanding. > > Observe which modules were changed (the output of 'cvs update') and > correspond with the developer. I thought we were trying to integrate changes so that they would not have to be seperately maintained, not to establish a channel whereby they could be seperately maintained. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.