From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 25 13:26:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mgw-x1.nokia.com (mgw-x1.nokia.com [131.228.20.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2127437BD75 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 13:26:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (mvdhcp141236.americas.nokia.com [172.18.141.236]) by mgw-x1.nokia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA18720; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 23:26:24 +0300 (EETDST) X-Authentication-Warning: mgw-x1.nokia.com: Host mvdhcp141236.americas.nokia.com [172.18.141.236] claimed to be nomad.yogotech.com Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA13776; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:22:06 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:22:06 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200004252022.OAA13776@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Richard Wackerbarth Cc: Nate Williams , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Archive pruning In-Reply-To: <00042511570801.32593@nomad.dataplex.net> References: <20000424185151.A36672@hub.freebsd.org> <00042422091401.16303@nomad.dataplex.net> <200004251609.KAA12689@nomad.yogotech.com> <00042511570801.32593@nomad.dataplex.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > No-one needs to grab a repository, unless they're looking at history. > > Just use CVSup to grab the latest bits, no need to grab the entire > > history. > > I find it virtually impossible to work with anything but the most stable > without the recent part of the repository because I often have to "unbreak" > something that was recently committed or is otherwise unfinished in order to > get a working system. I consider you a very small minority. A user who is not a developer, but who could be a developer. The amount of work it would take to support your needs is way too much work, and it would only benefit < 1-2% of the user base. Does this mean we don't care about all our users? Of course not, but when the same amount of time/effort can positively effect > 50% of the user base, then it makes more sense to spend the time more wisely. > > Users have the choice to take it all, since trying to build a 'pruned > > repository' is alot of work (due to the way CVS does it's thing), > > Actually, it isn't. it can be automated rather easily based on parsing the > CVS tags and using RCS primitives. Actually, it can't be. You can get about 90% of the way automatically, and the remaining 10% requires human intervention (due to the way Attics and tags are used). Really it can't. (Tried it in a previous project, we gave up and ended up building a new repository). Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message