From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 25 16:58:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9B9B37B56A; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 16:58:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA16449; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:58:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:58:45 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Matthew Hunt Cc: Richard Wackerbarth , Kris Kennaway , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Archive pruning In-Reply-To: <20000425133242.A42075@wopr.caltech.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Matthew Hunt wrote: > Maintaining a CVS repository is necessary only if you are working > on the code, so your proposal would only affect devlopers, not Joe > User. Normal users do not maintain copies of the repository and do > not have a frequent need to examine history. There's always cvsweb > for occasional browsing. This isn't quite true. A repository is very handy if you have a number of different enviornments, two or three STABLEs with different date stamps, say. That's not ideal, but it can be much easier than regression testing a bunch of applications. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message