From owner-ctm-users@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 31 17:52:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ctm-users@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32B84562 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:52:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@missouri.edu) Received: from wilberforce.math.missouri.edu (wilberforce.math.missouri.edu [128.206.184.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5AFF8FC08 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:52:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (wilberforce.math.missouri.edu [128.206.184.213]) by wilberforce.math.missouri.edu (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qBVHq1G2054639 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:52:01 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from stephen@missouri.edu) Message-ID: <50E1D0C1.3020601@missouri.edu> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:52:01 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ctm-users@freebsd.org Subject: Request for feedback: how many of you still use cvs-cur? References: <50E12E1B.6090403@missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <50E12E1B.6090403@missouri.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: ctm-users@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: CTM User discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:52:03 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Given yesterday's problems with cvs-cur (see below), I want to know how much effort I should expend on fixing it. If everyone is now switched to svn-cur, I won't put any effort into it. So how many of you are still using cvs-cur? On 12/31/2012 12:18 AM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > Tonight cvs-cur didn't create a delta. The reason is that cvsup > deleted most of the contents of "www" without putting them into > any kind of "Attic." The program that generates the delta only > allows up to 2500 files to be deleted in any one delta. Presumably > this is to avoid problems if huge numbers of files are deleted > accidentally at the other end. And this is quite likely what > really happened. > > I would like to encourage people to move to svn-cur. I have been > testing it for quite a while now, and it seems to be working very > well. > > cvs-cur is a rather hard set of deltas to maintain, particularly > now that FreeBSD is no longer based upon cvs. Just in terms of > generating deltas, it takes about 2 hours to create. Whereas the > typical svn-cur delta takes less than a minute to create (the > really big ones take at most 5 minutes to create). > > Also, cvs-cur is hard to maintain because it is the most > troublesome. As I have said, I plan to get rid of cvs-cur around > the end of February. And when it goes I will be very relieved. > > In the meantime, I really don't know what caused the last > breakage, and I cannot predict if it will fix itself tomorrow, or > whether it will remain broken for quite a while. As I said, I > don't think the problem is at my end, > > Thanks, Stephen _______________________________________________ > ctm-users@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/ctm-users To unsubscribe, > send any mail to "ctm-users-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQ4dDBAAoJEC3xK9GaktgHzCYH/i4gkMtcapzQszTSW+xp5rnp 8bQNvDWSC3eFVr2knzlP7IKmqphIaihRGl3preI9vFiD1xDvuvDivLOQ1wZzDPc0 f4JWZ0lg4fzuGgmToVqdp02FK8yUTkIzrDZCHy6fqVV51ELoKKn2P5CA/v8bXWXe 0Phq9mlFvOjRKJ7ozUYLNzOxlIkcno9yH95o4Rdj1ZigkBmqH4bOQLVpj2Nhtz/j bualld38tDCp8cjvBYb5Gcrw4LTg3q9D7x6choPp9QRq2A04OsVEp6XVr+w/rkbG 9meyhgxuWmEBWAllj0ZbusR273l0EJUxhMB7VnZfvlF5GKxSNBFijkpwybAmQ0Y= =r6cS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----