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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: Adding support for a global src tree serial number 
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:04:03 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

> This scheme won't work because the state of the tree can be modified
> by CVS meisters performing direct operations on a repository.  See
> how stealthy the latest GCC import gone.

I don't think there are so many CVS meisters, or so much src repo
surgery, that having them bump the serial number manually in these cases
is a problem.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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