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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!'




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