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Date:      Sat, 8 May 1999 08:42:39 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/handbook authors.sgml contrib.sgml
Message-ID:  <19990508084238.A50800@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990507161023.1B20B1F74@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Sat, May 08, 1999 at 12:10:21AM %2B0800
References:  <3732EDEF.4384D214@newsguy.com> <19990507161023.1B20B1F74@spinner.netplex.com.au>

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On Saturday,  8 May 1999 at  0:10:21 +0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
>> "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Uh, this is my first commit, and I have a bad feeling about the Attic par
>     t
>>>> of the path...  What did I do wrong?
>>>
>>> :-)  It always happens on your first commit, don't sweat it. :)
>>>
>>> You committed to the old handbook, not Nik's new one.  Where did you
>>> do this?  "handbook" should point to the new module now unless you've
>>> had this thing checked out for a few weeks or something. :)
>>
>> Life is just not fair... I recall screwing up because I did the
>> reverse. :-)
>
> Well, actually, you've discovered the secret.  This is the real initiation
> ritual..  We set the candidate committers up to have a screw-up and see if
> they have a thick enough skin to handle it gracefully.  If they can, then
> the odds are they will be able to handle something tougher like an adverse
> bde review without taking it too personally. :-)

Have any others managed to get you to do it for them?

Background: I did my first commit at the AUUG meeting in Sydney, with
Peter looking over my shoulder.  Together we managed to commit an
Emacs core file :-) It was convenient to have somebody on hand who
could just go in there and remove all trace again.

Greg
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