From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 20 17: 1:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 532ED14F09 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 17:01:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA22133; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:31:23 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990621093123:337=_"; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature" In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:31:23 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Chuck Robey Subject: Re: laying down tags Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Alfred Perlstein Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This message is in MIME format --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990621093123:337=_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 20-Jun-99 Chuck Robey wrote: > > Consider it preventative measures, several major overhauls of the > > VM, NFS and FS have occurred, had one of these mega commits been > > proven to be flawed in a major way it would have probably been > > extremely annoying to deal with, no? > Maybe I'm wrong, it seemed to me I could merely note the time of that > mega-commit (the one I woulc be bothered by) and ask cvs to roll back > the clock to that time. Zero cost in space to do this. Yes, but if I'm trying to track down a bug and I want to roll back my tree to before a certain commit a tag is much easier to deal with than a date.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990621093123:337=_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.3ia iQCVAwUBN22A01bYW/HEoF9pAQHrPQP/f73Q8S1JM6EyH+0hpJZyoj2C8jXPxsPo rAv6t198DFxYLBeGgBUp204f8/VpdihBQfp9J0dNOwJaiKkCZn7x3TWiWltfwHq3 sfwHDUnGwJQCayl7VUIk6fn5HVpY/cFUwK3cqyFDcR8C7gQxl5LHkSXR7/SZIr3y hJQx4ld6La0= =/vAn -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990621093123:337=_-- End of MIME message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message