Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 09:24:06 +1000 From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> To: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8-RELEASE vs SA-03:07 Message-ID: <200304022324.JAA20381@lightning.itga.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 02 Apr 2003 00:26:21 -0800.
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> is. When I was releasing commercial software, I'd simply lock and tag > the tree with a unique, temporary, label, check out a clean tree against > that label, unlock the tree and build and package the software. Neither "locking" nor "temporary labels" are a concept supported by CVS. And adding tags to the whole tree is a very expensive process, not only for the master CVS server but for every one of the thousands of mirrored CVS archives around the globe and the poor bloody official CVS mirrors that have to distribute those thousands of updates. It's not something to be done lightly.
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