From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Mar 14 13:45: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D36DE37B404; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:45:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from peter3.wemm.org ([12.232.27.13]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020314214501.BZVQ2626.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@peter3.wemm.org>; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:45:01 +0000 Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g2ELKCs41907; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:20:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9263E38CC; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:20:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Stephen McKay Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unmoronify CVS In-Reply-To: <200203141420.g2EEKLP15630@dungeon.home> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:20:12 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020314212012.9263E38CC@overcee.wemm.org> 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. val-tags does not work with distributed repositories, but it does work for non-distributed repos. The point of it is a speedup when you do have a complete list of known tags. It is there to stop your checked out tree geting trashed when you accidently type cvs up -r RELENG-4 (ie: misspelled). If val-tags does not list it, then it does an exhaustive search first. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message