From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 27 15:31:04 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2422616A468 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:31:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF45713C4E3 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:31:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from phobos.samsco.home (phobos.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lARFURoi016935; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:30:30 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <474C380E.3010903@samsco.org> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:30:22 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" References: <474C28C1.4000204@gmail.com> <474C2B01.7060305@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <474C2B01.7060305@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:30:30 -0700 (MST) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bypassing certain cvs commits X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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, 27 Nov 2007 15:31:04 -0000 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: >> Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:25:05AM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >>> As per my detailed comments to Jason >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2007-November/084307.html >>> is broken but I want to update everything else how do I by pass the >>> ref'ed commit? >> Grab the diff and revert if by hand after CVSup? May require some >> manual merging, but it will require merge in any case if later >> commits go to the top of the changes you want to revert. > I am using a local repo > Then use CVS to check out the exact rev of those files that you want. That'll make the rev be sticky in your tree, so it won't change the next time you update. Note that I would consider it rather rude and condescending to instruct a senior developer like Jason on how to do backouts instead of giving him help in identifying and maybe fixing the problems. Scott