From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 17:59:41 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 7097F16A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:59:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F03743D2D for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:59:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6538560E4; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:59:40 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 18662-03; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:59:38 -0600 (CST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [63.117.97.221]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B05C560D6; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:59:36 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <4249977B.1050709@makeworld.com> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:59:23 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Nelson References: <20050329174624.GR62864@0lsen.net> <20050329175619.GA51674@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20050329175619.GA51674@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: Clint Olsen 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 17:59:41 -0000 Dan Nelson wrote: >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. > > > Untill 5.4-RELEASE has been release, there isn't a 5_4 tag. Read the handbook. -- Best regards, Chris PGP Fingerprint = D976 2575 D0B4 E4B0 45CC AA09 0F93 FF80 C01B C363