Date: 20 Sep 1999 16:26:55 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/grdc grdc.c Message-ID: <xzpvh95r74g.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Brian F. Feldman"'s message of "Sat, 18 Sep 1999 12:16:42 -0400 (EDT)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909181214430.1247-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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"Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> writes: > It's pretty evil to be forced to do it on a preexisting file. Not that > it should never happen, but it's wrong to force people to do it that way. One day, while skimming through -questions or -current, you will see a user complaining about problems in a piece of the system that you maintain - what's more, complaining about a bug you think has already been fixed. Suspecting that the user is running an old version of that particular program, you will ask "what version of foo.c do you have in your source tree?". The user will reply "how do I tell?". Then you will be enlightened. DES (seems to be in the mood for koans) -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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