Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:08:57 -0500 From: "Gooderum, Mark" <mark@JUMPWEB.COM> To: "'chad@DCFinc.com'" <chad@DCFinc.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Upgrade info request (fwd) Message-ID: <251BF6012D6B4A49A4109B1C3289A7B5BB25@purgatory.jumpweb.com>
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This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01BFFCA4.5BE45533 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Acutally to be exact RCS (and thus CVS) does keep negative deltas relative to the head of the main brach. However, branches are forward deltas from the branch point, which means reconstructing the head of a branch forces you to delta from the head of the mainline back down the tree to the branch point and then out the branch. This is one of the criticism's of RCS. -- Mark ------_=_NextPart_001_01BFFCA4.5BE45533 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META NAME=3D"Generator" CONTENT=3D"MS Exchange Server version = 5.5.2650.12"> <TITLE>RE: Upgrade info request (fwd)</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2>Acutally to be exact RCS (and thus CVS) does keep = negative deltas relative to the head of the main brach. However, = branches are forward deltas from the branch point, which means = reconstructing the head of a branch forces you to delta from the head = of the mainline back down the tree to the branch point and then out the = branch. This is one of the criticism's of RCS.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2>--</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>Mark</FONT> </P> </BODY> </HTML> ------_=_NextPart_001_01BFFCA4.5BE45533-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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