From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 14 11:14: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (server.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FE1237B502 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:13:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (root@john.baldwin.cx [192.168.1.18]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA84277; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:18:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (from john@localhost) by john.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA14274; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:16:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john) Message-Id: <200010141816.LAA14274@john.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001014155710.P25237@speedy.gsinet> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:16:32 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Gerhard Sittig Subject: Re: removing global from tree Cc: FreeBSD Current Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14-Oct-00 Gerhard Sittig wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 05:35 -0700, David O'Brien wrote: >> >> I didn't put it in the Attic when I disconnected it from the >> build in case someone came forward screaming about removing it. >> I figured it was much easier to back out a Makefile commit than >> get things from the Attic back to being alive. I had actually >> forgotten about it as no one did come forward. > > Up to now I always thought "the Attic" is something CVS itself > takes care of when "cvs rm"ing files. What's that special thing > needing manual intervention or special attention you've been > talking about lately? Is it for performance reasons or for the > warm fuzzy feelings of having "not too rotten a repo"? It is where CVS puts files when you cvs rm them. You just have to do the actual cvs rm/cvs ci. David was cautious because if he had to back the change out, he didn't want to have to try to cvs add all of the files back in. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message