From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Jul 4 15:18:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FC5B14FB3 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:18:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA29802; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:18:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA08846; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:18:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990629183030J.horikawa@ebina.hitachi.co.jp> Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 15:18:32 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: Kazuo Horikawa Subject: RE: tags under doc Cc: freebsd-translate@ngo.org.uk, doc@FreeBSD.ORG, nclayton@lehman.com Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kazuo Horikawa wrote: > The reason why tag is needed (1) [...] The tags won't be totally removed from the new copies. They'll simply be renamed by prefixing each tag with "old". For example, "RELEASE_2_2_6" will be renamed to "oldRELEASE_2_2_6". The original tags (with their names unchanged) will still exist in the original files. This is the way we always do repository copies, and there is a simple and good reason for it. The repository holds the history of the project. History is something that happened in the past. It is immutable. The tag "RELEASE_2_2_6" must mean the same thing a year from now that it means today. If we copied the tags without renaming them, it would be equivalent to changing the past. The new copies did not exist at the time of RELEASE_2_2_6. I do not want to make it suddenly appear as if they had existed at that time. You will still be able to get the diffs you want in two different ways. 1. Diff the files in their original locations using the original tags. 2. Diff the files in their new locations using the renamed (oldRELEASE_2_2_6) tags. John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message