Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 00:10:40 +0200 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: richardcoleman@mindspring.com Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Up-to-date INDEXes may now be downloaded from www.freebsd.org Message-ID: <40AA89E0.40005@fillmore-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <40AA5B7C.2080205@mindspring.com> References: <20040517014925.GB46196@xor.obsecurity.org> <40A8CB94.1040102@mindspring.com> <200405171253.45991.linimon@lonesome.com> <40AA5B7C.2080205@mindspring.com>
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Richard Coleman wrote: > Mark Linimon wrote: > >> On Monday 17 May 2004 09:26 am, Richard Coleman wrote: >> >>> Why not auto-commit them to CVS? >> >> Because at that point you not only bloat the master CVS repo >> (these things are 5M, and there are two of them, and this is >> happening hourly?), but you also force everyone who tracks >> the ports tree by (e.g.) cvsup to download each and every >> one of the diffs every time it changes (that's how CVS works >> internally). >> >> mcl > > It's too bad there's not a way to force a commit to 1.0.1 (or whatever > the original repo number is) and have it over-write the previous commit. > The only way I can think of doing this is to physically remove the file > in the repo first. I guess that's not worth it. Oh well, was just > wondering. I guess you totally miss the purpose of a SCM system here. FWIIW, you can use CVSup to synchronize non-CVS files, for example the GNATS database. -Oliver
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