Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:00:01 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, arch@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unmoronify CVS Message-ID: <3C910F51.7AB7199E@mindspring.com> References: <xzphenkfaif.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200203132158.g2DLwW611237@green.bikeshed.org> <20020313143522.A13768@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzpit8013n6.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200203141420.g2EEKLP15630@dungeon.home>
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Stephen McKay wrote: > On Wednesday, 13th March 2002, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > >To summarize, val-tags saves a little time in a small number of cases, > >is useless in most cases, and outright harmful in many common cases. > > Val-tags has caused me nothing but irritation. It has never assisted > me in any way. It deserves to die. Who here is helped by val-tags? > It seems to be just plain wrong from the day it was added. It has saved me from tag typos on a slow link that would have otherwise deleted large chunks of my local source tree. Because of the slow link, recovering from this deletion would have required considerable time. I think people are seriously glossing over the fact that FreeBSD is used as a platform for other projects, which allow AnonCVS, and face this deletion problem. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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