Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 06:53:41 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Cc: steve@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-contrib@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/patch ChangeLog Makefile.in NEWS acconfig.h backupfile.c common.h config.hin configure configure.in Message-ID: <199706291353.GAA02724@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199706290621.XAA24743@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Jun 28, 97 11:21:44 pm
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Paul Traina wrote: > > Steve, > It doesn't look like you did this as an import, but rather as a commit > to the main branch. That means we've got a big nasty ugly problem on > our hands. > > All updates to ANY stuff gotten from ANY vendor need to go on the vendor > branch. > > I think, at this point, the best thing to do is rm -rf contrib/patch > from the repository and start over again with a clean import of 2.4. > > This is Peter's call. Paul, over the last couple years, we have seen a couple snafu's in commits/imports to the source tree. mistakes like these are horrendously expensive to repair (need to consume CVS guru time and effort). please include example command lines (both wrong and corrected) so others can learn from mistakes that are made. jmb
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