From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 17:56:26 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76EC616A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:56:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF44343D49 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:56:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j2THuJvk050190; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:56:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:56:19 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Clint Olsen Message-ID: <20050329175619.GA51674@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050329174624.GR62864@0lsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050329174624.GR62864@0lsen.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the current 5.4 tag? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:56:26 -0000 In the last episode (Mar 29), Clint Olsen said: > I tried RELENG_5_4 and cvsup wiped out my entire source repository since > ths tag doesn't exist. This seems like a silly thing to do - blasting the > entire archive if a tag doesn't exist. Why not error out instead? You can add the "-d ##" flag to cvsup, which will cause it to error out after deleting ## files. cvsup doesn't really know if a tag doesn't exist until it has walked the entire CVS repo. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com