Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 01:09:03 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tcpdump print-smb.c Message-ID: <20010206010903.E33865@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200101242056.f0OKut961097@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:56:55PM -0700 References: <p05010402b694bfca2ece@[128.113.24.161]> <XFMail.010123221817.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <p05010402b694bfca2ece@[128.113.24.161]> <200101242056.f0OKut961097@harmony.village.org>
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On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:56:55PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <p05010402b694bfca2ece@[128.113.24.161]> Garance A Drosihn writes:
> : If we're going to whine this much about fixing bugs, we're in
> : pretty sad shape. Yes, it would be nice if the "vendor" (in
> : this case) picked up the fix, and we did not have the repository
> : bloat.
>
> The bug could have been fixed as a vendor branch import, and then when
> the real fix came along, it would still be on the vendor branch. Yes,
> this is ugly, but CVS requires you to play stupid games like this
> because its support for vendor branches is less than could otherwise
> be desired.
Actually CVS does allow one to return to the vendor branch even after a
file has been pulled off of it. The problem is Peter will not use this
feature has he found problems with ``cvs diff -D ...'' after doing it.
But I really do wonder if Peter just didn't experience the major -D bug in
1.10.7 that makes its usage in branches totally useless.
> One could argue that you could change the default branch when this
> happens. However, that breaks cvs update -D, which is considered a
> worse breakage than the repo-bloat.
Are you sure it breaks it when using CVS 1.11.0? `update -D" is very
broken in 1.10.7. Just try checking out a pre-4.0 -CURRENT using 1.10.7.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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