From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 19 06:26:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA20965 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 06:26:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA20922 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 06:26:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA13999; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 07:26:05 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id HAA08771; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 07:26:03 -0700 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 07:26:03 -0700 Message-Id: <199802191426.HAA08771@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Terry Lambert Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), jdp@polstra.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up: src/games/boggle (tm) will soon be removed from repository In-Reply-To: <199802190827.BAA26612@usr02.primenet.com> References: <199802190529.WAA07263@mt.sri.com> <199802190827.BAA26612@usr02.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert writes: > > > > I'm going to nuke the boggle (tm) files from the CVS repository this > > > > weekend. If you update your sources using CVS, and have not done a > > > > "cvs update -P" in your games tree since Feburary 11, you will need to > > > > do one before this weekend. > > > > > > So you decided against running the committer (a committer is a type > > > of shell interpreter ;-)) script that I posted that would have > > > accomplished the rename without this type of damage? > > > > It would have created the exact same damage, but immediately so that > > users would't have had the chance to not have the damage. > > > > If you understood how CVS works, you'd know this. I though you had used > > CVS in a past life, but apparently not. > > The -P would still have been required, yes. "This type of damage" refers > to the precedent set, and the potential future ramifications. It would still cause the 'damage' the John was speaking about, in that if you had boggle checked out at that point, as soon as the rename was done everyone would have to go futz with their tree. By doing it the way John has done it, then people who stay updated don't have to futz with their tree. POLA. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message