From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Mar 14 13: 0:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB38037B400; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:00:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0226.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.226] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16lcKh-0003cQ-00; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:00:19 -0800 Message-ID: <3C910F51.7AB7199E@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:00:01 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen McKay Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , arch@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unmoronify CVS References: <200203132158.g2DLwW611237@green.bikeshed.org> <20020313143522.A13768@dragon.nuxi.com> <200203141420.g2EEKLP15630@dungeon.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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