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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 18:03:49 -0700
To: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>,
	Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>
From: "Derek C." <coffee@blarg.net>
Subject: Re: is "stable" "stable"? 
Cc: "A. L. Meyers" <a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com>,
	freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
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Fortunately, the latter will usually cause you to get either compiler or 
linker errors, but not always.

Derek

At 05:55 PM 7/22/2001, Gregory Bond wrote:
> > you should expect to
> > occasionally see problems.  People will break the build.  People will have
> > insufficiently tested their code and subsystems will break.
>
>And CVS itself is not atomic, so there is always the possibility of you
>grabbing a version half-way through a series of related and interdependent
>commits. There is no obvious way of fixing this that will still scale to the
>sort of load that the FreeBSD CVS system has to support.
>
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