Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:58:32 -0500 From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unmoronify CVS Message-ID: <200203132158.g2DLwW611237@green.bikeshed.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "13 Mar 2002 22:00:56 %2B0100." <xzphenkfaif.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> wrote: > Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes: > > Sounds like -R should be fixed so it works right in this situation, > > instead of providing a compile-time option to avoid the problem. > > (mind you, I don't even know what "val-tags" are...) Why should > > someone have to recompile CVS just to get -R to work? > > You don't get the point at all. The val-tags stuff is *not needed* > for *any purpose whatsoever* and *does not achieve the goal it was > intended for* and *slows down any tag-related cvs operation by > approximately half*. It's just not worth fixing. It is much simpler > to just dike it out. > > If it had been implemented correctly, val-tags might have been > somewhat useful for small repos containing just one module (or a very > few), but it's *not* implemented correctly and it simply makes no > sense at all for larger repos with dozens or hundreds or thousands of > modules. It greatly pessimizes the common case and barely affects the > rare case, and it generally pisses off anyone doing any serious amount > of work with a read-only repo (or *any* repo that takes more than > roughly three seconds to scan through) To provide the appropriate misquotation: BANG. BANG. BANG. BANG. BANG. BANG. BANG. BANG. click. click. BANG. BANG. BANG. BANG. BANG. BANG. BANG. BANG. click. click. Please, please, please remove it. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org <> bfeldman@tislabs.com \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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