Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 16:57:47 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, "Art Neilson, KH7PZ" <art@hawaii.rr.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: cvsup Message-ID: <19990903165747.J18814@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199909032132.RAA20563@bellsouth.net>; from W Gerald Hicks on Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 05:32:10PM -0400 References: <35328.936348806@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <199909032132.RAA20563@bellsouth.net>
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On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 05:32:10PM -0400, a little birdie told me that W Gerald Hicks remarked > > > You're trying to mix two different methods of tracking stable. CVS and > > CVSup aren't the same thing. Pick one and stick to that. The only reason > > you'd want to use CVS over CVSup is if you make a lot of local source > > hacks. > > Not necessarily :-) > > I find it more useful to use CVSup to maintain my local repository > and use CVS to check out from that. Why? cvs log, cvs diff, etc. 'Screw this make cleandir crap, newfs /usr/src, cd /usr && cvs co src.' 'Let's do a build on RELENG_2_1 overnight just to prove we can!' 'Let's only CVSup once for both src/ and ports/' And, my personal favorite, 'Look at this 750 megs of space I have sitting around!' -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ FutureSouth Communications | ISPHelp ISP Consulting "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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