From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 2 10: 9:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.jumpweb.com (mgooderum1.dsl.uswest.net [209.180.19.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C701E37BBAB for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 10:09:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@JUMPWEB.COM) Received: from purgatory.jumpweb.com (purgatory [172.15.1.5]) by gateway.jumpweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA69406; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:09:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mark@JUMPWEB.COM) Received: by purgatory.jumpweb.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:09:04 -0500 Message-ID: <251BF6012D6B4A49A4109B1C3289A7B5BB25@purgatory.jumpweb.com> From: "Gooderum, Mark" To: "'chad@DCFinc.com'" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Upgrade info request (fwd) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:08:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01BFFCA4.5BE45533" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 RE: Upgrade info request (fwd)

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.

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Mark

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