Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 21:20:40 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS Branches hits again! Message-ID: <199707140420.VAA09035@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199707081745.KAA25344@austin.polstra.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970708153658.1488A-100000@nagual.pp.ru> <199707081745.KAA25344@austin.polstra.com>
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In case some of you didn't see the announcement, I released CVSup 15.1 recently, and it "fixes" this problem as best as I could manage. The solution is implemented in the server, so you actually don't need to upgrade your clients just for this. (There are other good reasons to upgrade, though. If there weren't, do you think I'd waste my time making a new release? :-) On the down side, you have to rely on your friendly mirror administrator to upgrade his CVSup server. All of the US mirrors are already up-to-date, and hopefully the others will upgrade Real Soon Now. The solution is not perfect. If you are using checkout mode and have already received the files that should be dead, the new version will not automatically remove them for you. Sorry, but there was no way to implement that without absolutely killing performance. You will have to delete the offending files by hand. Once you've done that, they will correctly stay deleted through subsequent updates using the new server. Now, before a dozen people write to me and ask for a list of the affected files: I don't have a list. Maybe somebody else has one. You can construct a pretty complete one yourself by perusing the earlier messages in this thread, especially the ones from ache. After you've made a list that you think is accurate, why not share it with the rest of us? In areas where there is any doubt, it's better to delete too much than too little. CVSup will bring back any erroneously deleted files. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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