From owner-cvs-ports Tue Mar 28 14:04:58 1995 Return-Path: cvs-ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA29360 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:04:58 -0800 Received: from thud.cdrom.com (thud.cdrom.com [192.216.222.13]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA29354; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:04:54 -0800 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by thud.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA07054; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:04:39 -0800 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id OAA00334; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:04:09 -0800 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199503282204.OAA00334@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/japanese/tcl/pkg REQ To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:04:09 -0800 (PST) Cc: nate@trout.sri.MT.net, paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, asami@thud.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@thud.cdrom.com, cvs-ports@thud.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199503281740.JAA16735@precipice.Shockwave.COM> from "Paul Traina" at Mar 28, 95 09:40:55 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1590 Sender: cvs-ports-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Thats why I said 'in general'. > > Modules is the one safe one to mess with because it's nearly impossible to > get into a recursive screwup. I was talking about editinfo, the hook scripts, > etc etc etc. You do not want to be using the tool that calls the script to > archive the script because if you broke something badly, you can wedge your > ability to use the tool. Agreed, that is a case in point where one has to revert down to RCS to fix it. I generally only revert to RCS after the screw up has occured, and since I pretest all my changes in duplicate repository this has very rarely occured. IMHO, you have just violated the rules about direct repositry work, caused as all some grief, and potentially could have caused some serious damage by doing developement work in a live and active CVS repository. When ever I had work like this to do in CVSROOT I did it on my own local copy of cvs (ie repointed $CVSROOT) until I had it correct. When I was ready to make the changes on freefall I would kick everyone out of cvs until I was done and it was all tested. Now we have a bunch of VERY crufty looking rcs log messages!! Please do not ever again do work in the repository on freefall, this is just a bad thing to do!! Espicially without checking with -core before going in and doing it!!! Consider your hands seriously slapped!!! Another action like this will cause lost of your membership in group ncvs. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD